About the Author

Frederick A. de Armas, professor of Spanish at Louisiana State University, is the author of The Invisible Mistress: Aspects of Feminism and Fantasy in the Golden Age.

Reviews

"Absorbing... thoroughly original.... Certainly one of the most compelling books on Calderón to have appeared in many a year." -- Renaissance Quarterly

"A major contibution to Golden Age scholarship that will be useful to graduate students and upper-division undergraduates." -- Choice