Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Honor, Gender, and (Spanish) Nation
Part 1. Hercules
2. Hercules Hispanicus
3. The Deaths of Hercules
4. Hercules Redux: Transvestism and the Hombre Esquivo
Part 2. King Sebastian
5. En Route to King Sebastian
6. The Once and Future King: Sebastian and Sebastianisms
7. Staging Sebastian: The Body that Mattered
8. Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Dian Fox is a professor emerita of Hispanic studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of Refiguring the Hero: From Peasant to Noble in Lope de Vega and Calderón and Kings in Calderón: A Study in Characterization and Political Theory. 
 

"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"--