Political and gender transgressions in Lope de Vega's La varona castellana.(The Evolution of War and Its Representation in Literature and Film)(Critical essay)

From: West Virginia University Philological Papers | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Platero, Luzmila Camacho | Copyright information

Lope de Vega's play, La varona castellana (1617), is based on a historical conflict that unfolds during the twelfth-century political and military confrontation between the two most powerful Christian kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula: Castile-Leon and Aragon. After the death of her husband, Raimundo de Borgona, dona Urraca (1109-1126), Queen of Leon and Castile, was forced by her father, Alfonso VI, to marry her cousin, Alfonso I, King of Aragon. (1) The lack of children from this...

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