Title Hercules and the King of Portugal : icons of masculinity and nation in Calderón's Spain / Dian Fox

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 303 pages) Series New Hispanisms Contents Introduction -- Honor, gender, and (Spanish) nation -- Part 1. Hercules. Hercules Hispanicus -- The deaths of Hercules -- Hercules redux : transvestism and the hombre esquivo -- Part 2. King Sebastian. En route to King Sebastian -- The once and future king : Sebastian and Sebastianisms -- Staging Sebastian : the body that mattered -- Conclusions Summary Hercules and the King of Portugal investigates how representations of masculinity figure in the fashioning of Spanish national identity, scrutinizing ways that gender performances of two early modern male icons-Hercules and King Sebastian-are structured to express enduring nationhood. The classical hero Hercules features prominently in Hispanic foundational fictions and became intimately associated with the Hapsburg monarchy in the early sixteenth century. King Sebastian of Portugal (1554-78), both during his lifetime and after his violent death, has been inserted into his own land's charter myth, even as competing interests have adapted his narratives to promote Spanish power. The hybrid oral and written genre of poetic Spanish theater, as purveyor and shaper of myth, was well situated to stage and resolve dilemmas relating both to lineage determined by birth and performance of masculinity, in ways that would ideally uphold hierarchy. Dian Fox's ideological analysis exposes how the two icons are subject to political manipulations in seventeenth-century Spanish theater and other media. Fox finds that officially sanctioned and sometimes popularly produced narratives are undercut by dynamic social and gendered processes: "Hercules" and "Sebastian" slip outside normative discourses and spaces to enact nonnormative behaviors and unreproductive masculinities Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Sebastião, King of Portugal, 1554-1578 -- In literature Hercules (Roman mythological character) -- In literature Heracles (Greek mythological character) -- In literature Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681 fast Heracles (Greek mythological character) fast Hercules (Roman mythological character) fast Sebastião, King of Portugal, 1554-1578 fast Subject Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Masculinity in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese. HISTORY -- Europe -- Spain & Portugal. Literature Masculinity in literature Spanish literature -- Classical period Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781496212153 1496212150 9781496212177 1496212177

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