The Mountain Girl from La Vera: By Luis Vélez de Guevara (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781786941923)

This bilingual edition presents Luis Vélez de Guevara's 1613 play La Serrana de la Vera (The Mountain Girl from La Vera) for the first time ever in English translation. This long-forgotten tragedy has come back into focus in recent years because of its extraordinary protagonist, Gila, a peasant girl who calls herself a man, takes fierce pride in doing things men do, and falls in love with Queen Isabel. Her betrayal by an army captain who she has humiliated leads to lawlessness, violence and tragedy. Dramatized by the playwright as an heroic rebel, Gila has been variously described as feminist, homosexual, bisexual, lesbian, transsexual, hybrid, queer, and transgender. Highly relevant today, The Mountain Girl from La Vera is also a great piece of theatre, full of dramatic confrontations, colourful vignettes, striking moments of music and spectacle, and plentiful comic relief. This bilingual edition presents the entirety of the play, annotated, along with a Critical Introduction by
the translator that contextualizes the work.


Author: Harley Erdman
ISBN-10: 1786941929
ISBN-13: 9781786941923
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2019
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.00d

About the Author

Harley Erdman is a Professor of Theatre at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.