Hercules and the King of Portugal : icons of masculinity and nation in Calderón's Spain /
Fox, Dian,
Hercules and the King of Portugal : icons of masculinity and nation in Calderón's Spain / Dian Fox. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xxx, 303 pages) - New Hispanisms .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"Scrutinizes ways that gender performances of two male icons of the early modern Iberian Peninsula are structured to express enduring nationhood, in theater and other genres"--
9781496212153 9781496212177
Sebastião, King of Portugal, 1554-1578 --In literature.
Hercules (Roman mythological character) --In literature.
Heracles (Greek mythological character) --In literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Electronic Books.
PQ6066 / .H473 2019
Hercules and the King of Portugal : icons of masculinity and nation in Calderón's Spain / Dian Fox. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xxx, 303 pages) - New Hispanisms .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"Scrutinizes ways that gender performances of two male icons of the early modern Iberian Peninsula are structured to express enduring nationhood, in theater and other genres"--
9781496212153 9781496212177
Sebastião, King of Portugal, 1554-1578 --In literature.
Hercules (Roman mythological character) --In literature.
Heracles (Greek mythological character) --In literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Electronic Books.
PQ6066 / .H473 2019