Womens Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater

Womens Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater is the first full-length, in-depth study of female actors in seventeenth-century Spain. Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen examines examples of comedias from playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Luis Vélez de Guevara, Tirso de Molina, and Ana Caro, historical documents, and treatises to demonstrate t