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This week on the podcast: Valor, Agravio y Mujer – by Ana Caro (c. 1640)

If you want a scorned heroine who is determined to live in a revenge tragedy but accidentally finds herself in a comedy…

consider this Spanish Golden Age play. With cross dressing, love triangles, swordplay, and soaring verse, this is a celebration of women’s agency. Doña Leonora dresses like a man and crosses Europe to get revenge on her ungrateful ex who left her unmarriageable.Along the way, she manipulates others in her sphere (often through the clever use of funny voices) causing confusion and antics – and ends up with a triumph that she deems better than any murder.

Bonus Episode:Translator Catherine Boyle

You may know her from the 2020 Expand the Canon list as the translator for Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz's

House of Desires

–– but translator, professor, and founder of Out of the Wings Catherine Boyle is now working on Ana Caro's

Valor, Agravio, y Mujer

! 

Listen now

In case you missed last week's episode: Françoise by George Sand

If you’re looking for something lighter in your Ibsen or Shaw slot

… consider this deft comedy where the girl

finally

learns to stand up for herself. Ahead of its time, George Sand delivers this delightful, snide jab at the aristocracy that seems a precursor to Oscar Wilde’s cutting humor. Join us in rooting for Françoise as she gains the self worth to say

adieu

.

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