Elizabeth Teresa Howe — об авторе

Those roles included writing plays for both secular theaters as well as convent productions. In contrast to the English stage, women could perform in the Spanish theater, so that the female audience members occupying the cazuela or “stew pan,” as the women’s section was called, could observe actresses portraying…

In their avowed admiration of Isabel’s accomplishments, Fray Martin, Lucena, and others ascribe her success in an avowedly male environment to her “masculine” qualities of leadership. Although they accept these qualities in a queen who must rule, they just as surely deny them to virtually all other women.