The first comprehensive study in English of one of the most important bodies of verse in European literature.

This ambitious book attempts to rehistoricize the Golden Age of Spain (ca. 1550-1680) by placing literary production in its socio-cultural context. Drawing on t

By engaging in dialogue the voices of both male and female writers who participated both in the broader courtly love tradition and in the theatrical production

A new examination of the important theme of conversion in seventeenth-century Spanish drama.

Art historians have often minimized the variety and complexity of seventeenth-century Spanish painting by concentrating on individual artists and their works an