Is gender learned or innate? This controversial play asks the question: what happens if you raise a boy to sew and behave as a girl, and raise his sister to fight as a soldier? For the first time ever, GuillÃ(c)n de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre ('The Force of Habit') will be available to English and Spanish audiences with a performance-tested translation on facing pages. Castro's plot is unique in that, unlike other cross dressing plays, the children do not traverse gender boundaries by choice; instead complications arising from their parents' problematic marriage dictate the gender they should perform. This new Spanish edition (the first since 1927) and performance-tested English translation will begin a new discussion of this understudied work and its implications among Hispanists, comparatists, performance theorists, and gender scholars. The critical apparatus includes a biography of the author, textual history, editorial methodology, metrical analysis, bibliography and notes on the text. Machit's introductory essay, 'Bad Habits: Gender Made and Remade in La fuerza de la costumbre' aims to contextualize and investigate the most salient questions raised by Castro's gender-bending play.

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	382
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Liverpool University Press
Fecha de Publicación	2019-01-01
Dimensiones	8.2" x 5.8" x 0.8" pulgadas
Serie	Aris and Phillips Hispanic Classics
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No

GuillÃ(c)n de Castro y Bellvis (1569-1631) was a Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.

Melissa R. Machit holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University.

Kathleen Jeffs is Chair of the Theatre and Dance Department, Gonzaga University.