Bad Girls on Stage: Spectacles of Deviance and Rehabilitation in Early Modern Spain Público
Boyle, Margaret Elizabeth (2010)
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Abstract
Bad Girls on Stage explores the interdependent relationships among public theater, custodial institutions and women in early modern Spain. I argue that the bad girl is not merely a stock figure but rather that she dramatizes significant and controversial issues for the period: the rapidly changing role of women and the increased bureaucracy of the new urban centers.
This study begins by asking how custodial institutions were shaped by their interdependent economic relationship with public theater. To address this question, Chapter 1 focuses on Madrid's la casa de Santa María Magdalena de la Penitencia (founded 1587) and la galera (founded 1604). Through the study of institutional manuals and legal documents, the chapter compares the spectacular rehabilitation strategies employed by these institutions. Subsequent chapters move the project from the historical to the theatrical realm: concentrating on the popular staging of the early modern widow, female community and the murderess, supplementing institutional accounts of women's rehabilitation with popular accounts from the public theater.
Chapter 2 focuses on the widowed protagonist of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's La dama duende (1629) and her escapade through two important settings: the enclosure of the domestic sphere and Madrid's burgeoning city streets. Chapter 3 addresses the interplay between female community, a heroine's betrayal, and the comedia as an instructive tool in María de Zayas' La traición en la amistad (1630). Chapter 4 examines Luis Vélez de Guevara's La serrana de la Vera (1613), exploring the ways in which moralizing effects are achieved through the display of the protagonist's violence, enacted, not insignificantly, by one of the most prominent actresses of his generation, Jusepa Vaca.
Bad Girls on Stage puts into dialogue scenes of rehabilitation crafted by early modern Spanish dramatists with those enacted by contemporary custodial institutions. Although historical evidence shows these two spheres were likely already informed by one another throughout the early modern period, this project takes significant steps to document their interrelationship, especially as it illuminates the obscured history of gender-specific rehabilitation.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
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1
Chapter 1:
Spectacular Rehabilitation:
The Theatrics of Recogimiento in Early Modern
Madrid................... 18
I. Reforming Prostitutes: Madrid's Magdalen
House........................ 28
II. Reforming the Magdalen House:
Sor Magdalena de San Jerónimo's
galera...................................... 35
III. Spectacular Rehabilitation
Revisited........................................ 51
Chapter 2:
Stage Widow in Pedro Calderón de la Barca's La dama
duende…….... 53
Chapter 3:
Odd Woman Out in María de Zayas's La traición en la
amistad……..... 82
Chapter 4:
Women's Exemplary Violence in Luis Vélez de Guevara's
La serrana de la Vera
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107
Conclusion...............................................................................
139
Works
Cited..............................................................................
146
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