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Bernstein, Beth Ann.

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If the shoe fits: A study of shifting identities in four Spanish plays.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	If the shoe fits: A study of shifting identities in four Spanish plays./
Author:	Bernstein, Beth Ann.
Description:	317 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Susan Rivera; Michael Kidd.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-06A.
Subject:	Literature, Romance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3220941
ISBN:	9780542736179

If the shoe fits: A study of shifting identities in four Spanish plays.
Bernstein, Beth Ann.

If the shoe fits: A study of shifting identities in four Spanish plays. - 317 p.

Advisers: Susan Rivera; Michael Kidd.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2006.

In this dissertation, I discuss the construction of identity and society's influence on identity. The plays El retablo de las maravillas (1615), Virtudes vencen senales (c. 1620), El publico (1929), and La llamada de Lauren (1985) all deal with the shifting identities of the characters. In each theatrical work, characters struggle with different aspects of identity such as ethnicity, gender, sexual preference and race. As they reach to define themselves, internal and external pressures help them to interpret what is acceptable behavior, and although some rebel against the confines of society, their differences are not generally accepted. The characters in some of the plays must wear masks and create false identities in order to face society, and therefore a fear of true identity is a motivating factor for these characters. Some deny their real identity while others create facades to mask their true selves.

ISBN: 9780542736179Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019014
Literature, Romance.

If the shoe fits: A study of shifting identities in four Spanish plays.
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520 $a In this dissertation, I discuss the construction of identity and society's influence on identity. The plays El retablo de las maravillas (1615), Virtudes vencen senales (c. 1620), El publico (1929), and La llamada de Lauren (1985) all deal with the shifting identities of the characters. In each theatrical work, characters struggle with different aspects of identity such as ethnicity, gender, sexual preference and race. As they reach to define themselves, internal and external pressures help them to interpret what is acceptable behavior, and although some rebel against the confines of society, their differences are not generally accepted. The characters in some of the plays must wear masks and create false identities in order to face society, and therefore a fear of true identity is a motivating factor for these characters. Some deny their real identity while others create facades to mask their true selves.
520 $a Through close reading and analysis of these plays, I have uncovered the central problem of the main characters in each play. In El retablo de las maravillas, the characters are so obsessed with the possibility of being Jewish that they accept a false reality in order to escape an imagined identity. In Virtudes vencen senales, Filipo, a black prince, denies his ethnicity and identity and exclaims that he is white and noble on the inside although he believes that he is black and monstrous on the outside. In El publico, the main character's mask of conformity crumbles and his real homosexual identity is revealed. Performance and reality blend and gender identity is called into question in La llamada de Lauren as the character Pedro becomes the woman he had never allowed himself to be. The central characters in these plays battle with self-definition.
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