Dian Fox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dian Fox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dian |
| FAMILY NAME | Fox |
| SIGNATURE | FOX D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7553-7780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Desde entonces soy mujer
Guillén de Castro stages myths about rape in his comedia La fuerza de la costumbre . A pair of siblings has been raised separately, the sister cross-dressed and the brother accustomed to feminine domestic pursuits. The father reunites the family, intending to teach his offspring gender-appropriate conduct. The daughter Hipólita resists his efforts before a violent sexual encounter, afterwards becoming meek and compliant. Over the course of the pl…
Staging Favorites
Staging Favorites: Theatrical Representations of Political Favoritism in the Early Modern Courts of Spain, France, and England. Francisco Gómez Martos. Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge 14. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. vii + 120 pp. $160. - Volume 76 Issue 2
From King Sebastian of Portugal to Miguel de Cervantes and don Quijote
From King Sebastian of Portugal to Miguel de Cervantes and don Quijote:A Genealogy of Myth and Influence Dian Fox At the age of twenty-four, King Sebastian of Portugal (1554–1578) led a disastrously failed invasion of Morocco, where he was killed, unmarried and childless.1 His loss led to Portugal's loss of sovereignty to Spain in 1580 when his uncle, Philip II, claimed the neighboring crown. By the early 1600s, rumors that Sebastian was still al…
Gendering the Crown in the Spanish Baroque Comedia
De amor, de honor e de donas”
Reviewed by: “De amor, de honor e de donas”: Mujer e ideales corteses en la Castilla de Juan II (1406-1454) by Julio Vélez Sainz Dian Fox Julio Vélez Sainz, “De amor, de honor e de donas”: Mujer e ideales corteses en la Castilla de Juan II (1406-1454), Madrid: Editorial Complutense, 2013. 248 pp. In this detailed and revealing book Julio Vélez Sainz studies dynamics of cultural and political authority during the long reign of Castile’s King Juan …
English Renaissance Drama and the Specter of Spain
Reviewed by: English Renaissance Drama and the Specter of Spain: Ethnopoetics and Empire Dian Fox Eric J. Griffin. English Renaissance Drama and the Specter of Spain: Ethnopoetics and Empire. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2009. xii + 303 pp. On his death in 1578 Portugal’s King Sebastian left no viable heirs, precipitating a succession crisis that shook Northern Europe as well as the Iberian [End Page 410] Peninsula. In 1580 Sebastian’s uncl…
Playing the King
Reconsiderations monarchy and the theatre historical transformations - fractured icons I historical transformations -fractured icons II sin decir - patterns of communications the politics of tragedy - absolutism and reason of state political antinomies - rebels within the system conclusions. List of works consulted
The Prince in the Tower
Reviewed by: The Prince in the Tower: Perceptions of La vida es sueño Dian Fox The Prince in the Tower: Perceptions of La vida es sueño. Ed. Frederick A. de Armas. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1993. 229 pages. This volume testifies to the stature of Frederick A. de Armas, who in 1990 was able to bring together some of the most highly regarded comedia scholars for a symposium exploring recent critical developments on Calderón’s La vida es…
"Don Quixote" and the Poetics of the Novel
Refiguring the Hero. From Peasant to Noble in Lope de Vega y Calderon
Refiguring the Hero. From Peasant to Noble in Lope de Vega and Calderon
Texto y espectaculo
Kings in Calderon
Kings in Calderon
Tragedia de la honra de Dido restaurada
The Return of Astraea
The Reconstruction of a Spanish Golden Age Playhouse
The Apocryphal Part One of Don Quijote
Time and again, especially in the first part of Don Quijote, characters concern themselves with the art of telling a good story.2 The protagonist cannot restrain himself from editing the malapropisms out of Pedro the Goatherd's partial biography of Marcela, although he appreciates both its substance and the 'muy buena gracia' with which it is narrated (I, xii, 113). The Curate Pero Perez enjoys the manner of telling the tale of the Curioso impert…
El Medico de su Honra
E L medico de su honra is one of Calder6n de la Barca's most fascinating and enigmatic works. The power of the drama of passion and revenge has always been recognized by the play's readers. In the past thirty years a greater appreciation of Calder6n's subtle craft has brought to light a fine irony which links the fate of the characters in the play with that of Peter I in history. However, the dynamics of the dramatic situation has to date oversha…
"Don Quixote" and the Poetics of the Novel
Playing the King
Reconsiderations monarchy and the theatre historical transformations - fractured icons I historical transformations -fractured icons II sin decir - patterns of communications the politics of tragedy - absolutism and reason of state political antinomies - rebels within the system conclusions. List of works consulted
El Medico de su Honra
E L medico de su honra is one of Calder6n de la Barca's most fascinating and enigmatic works. The power of the drama of passion and revenge has always been recognized by the play's readers. In the past thirty years a greater appreciation of Calder6n's subtle craft has brought to light a fine irony which links the fate of the characters in the play with that of Peter I in history. However, the dynamics of the dramatic situation has to date oversha…
The Apocryphal Part One of Don Quijote
Time and again, especially in the first part of Don Quijote, characters concern themselves with the art of telling a good story.2 The protagonist cannot restrain himself from editing the malapropisms out of Pedro the Goatherd's partial biography of Marcela, although he appreciates both its substance and the 'muy buena gracia' with which it is narrated (I, xii, 113). The Curate Pero Perez enjoys the manner of telling the tale of the Curioso impert…
The Reconstruction of a Spanish Golden Age Playhouse
The Return of Astraea
Tragedia de la honra de Dido restaurada
Kings in Calderon
Kings in Calderon
Texto y espectaculo
Refiguring the Hero. From Peasant to Noble in Lope de Vega and Calderon
Refiguring the Hero. From Peasant to Noble in Lope de Vega y Calderon
The Prince in the Tower
Reviewed by: The Prince in the Tower: Perceptions of La vida es sueño Dian Fox The Prince in the Tower: Perceptions of La vida es sueño. Ed. Frederick A. de Armas. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1993. 229 pages. This volume testifies to the stature of Frederick A. de Armas, who in 1990 was able to bring together some of the most highly regarded comedia scholars for a symposium exploring recent critical developments on Calderón’s La vida es…
"Don Quixote" and the Poetics of the Novel
Playing the King
Reconsiderations monarchy and the theatre historical transformations - fractured icons I historical transformations -fractured icons II sin decir - patterns of communications the politics of tragedy - absolutism and reason of state political antinomies - rebels within the system conclusions. List of works consulted
English Renaissance Drama and the Specter of Spain
Reviewed by: English Renaissance Drama and the Specter of Spain: Ethnopoetics and Empire Dian Fox Eric J. Griffin. English Renaissance Drama and the Specter of Spain: Ethnopoetics and Empire. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2009. xii + 303 pp. On his death in 1578 Portugal’s King Sebastian left no viable heirs, precipitating a succession crisis that shook Northern Europe as well as the Iberian [End Page 410] Peninsula. In 1580 Sebastian’s uncl…
Gendering the Crown in the Spanish Baroque Comedia
De amor, de honor e de donas”
Reviewed by: “De amor, de honor e de donas”: Mujer e ideales corteses en la Castilla de Juan II (1406-1454) by Julio Vélez Sainz Dian Fox Julio Vélez Sainz, “De amor, de honor e de donas”: Mujer e ideales corteses en la Castilla de Juan II (1406-1454), Madrid: Editorial Complutense, 2013. 248 pp. In this detailed and revealing book Julio Vélez Sainz studies dynamics of cultural and political authority during the long reign of Castile’s King Juan …
From King Sebastian of Portugal to Miguel de Cervantes and don Quijote
From King Sebastian of Portugal to Miguel de Cervantes and don Quijote:A Genealogy of Myth and Influence Dian Fox At the age of twenty-four, King Sebastian of Portugal (1554–1578) led a disastrously failed invasion of Morocco, where he was killed, unmarried and childless.1 His loss led to Portugal's loss of sovereignty to Spain in 1580 when his uncle, Philip II, claimed the neighboring crown. By the early 1600s, rumors that Sebastian was still al…
Staging Favorites
Staging Favorites: Theatrical Representations of Political Favoritism in the Early Modern Courts of Spain, France, and England. Francisco Gómez Martos. Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge 14. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. vii + 120 pp. $160. - Volume 76 Issue 2
Desde entonces soy mujer
Guillén de Castro stages myths about rape in his comedia La fuerza de la costumbre . A pair of siblings has been raised separately, the sister cross-dressed and the brother accustomed to feminine domestic pursuits. The father reunites the family, intending to teach his offspring gender-appropriate conduct. The daughter Hipólita resists his efforts before a violent sexual encounter, afterwards becoming meek and compliant. Over the course of the pl…
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