Table of Contents

Introduction: Gender, Violence, and Theater in Early Modern Spain Part 1. On Violence Against Women 1. Women and Domestic Violence in Early Modern Spain 2. Wife Battering in the Entremeses 3. Prostitution in the Underworld of the Jácaras Part 2. On Violence Against Men 4. Renegotiating Masculinity in the Advent of Modernity 5. Lindos, Sodomites, Cross-dressers, and Impotent Men 6. Juan Rana: Neither Nor Afterword

About the Author

Tania de Miguel Magro is Associate Professor at West Virginia University, where she teaches courses on Spanish literature and culture. Her main area of study is early modern Spanish theater, with an emphasis on issues of gender and social struggles.