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Ana Caro

Personal information
Surname: Caro
First name: Ana
Commonly known as: Ana Caro
Other versions of the name: Doña Ana Caro de Mallén, Doña Ana Caro de Mallén de Soto, Doña Ana Caro de Manlleu, Doña Ana Caro Mallen de Soto, Doña Ana Caro y Mallén de Soto
Born: c. 1600, Seville or Granada, Spain
Died: ?31 January 1652
Biography

It is thought that Ana Caro was born around 1600 and that she died on 31 January 1652, and she was buried in Utrera, just outside of Seville. Although biographical information about her... (Read more...)

Themes

Ana Caro’s comedias are typical only in the sense that they treat typical comedia themes—honour, revenge, love triangles, and intrigue. Yet in both Valor, agravio y mujer and El Conde P... (Read more...)

Style

Known primarily as a poet in her lifetime, though renowned also for her plays, the poetic features of her two comedias are notable in their innovative use of verse, such as in Valor, ag... (Read more...)

Plays in the database
Useful reading and websites
  • Armas, Frederick de. 1986. 'Ana Caro Mallén de Soto'. In Women Writers of Spain: An Annotated Bio-Bibliographical Guide, ed. Carolyn L. Galerstein, pp. 66-7. New York, Greenwood

  • Ordóñez, Elizabeth J. 1985. 'Woman and Her Text in the Works of María de Zayas and Ana Caro', Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 19, 1, 3-15

  • Armas, Frederick de. 1976. The Invisible Mistress: Aspects of Feminism and Fantasy in the Golden Age. Biblioteca Siglo de Oro. Charlottesville, Virginia

  • Caro, Ana. 1993. El conde Partinuplés, ed. Lola Luna. Kassel, Reichenberger (in Spanish)

  • Caro, Ana. 1998. Las comedias de Ana Caro, ed. María José Delgado. New York, Peter Lang (in Spanish)

  • Delgado, María José. 1993. Valor, agravio y mujer y El conde Partinuplés: una edición crítica. Doctoral thesis, University of Arizona (in Spanish)

  • Foley, Luisa F. 1977. Valor, agravio y mujer, by Doña Ana Caro Mallén de Soto: Annotated Critical Edition with Introductory Critical Study. Master’s thesis, Temple University

  • Kaminsky, Amy. 1993. ‘Ana Caro Mallén de Soto’. In Spanish Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Source Book, eds. Linda Gould Levine, Ellen Engelson Marson and Gloria Feiman Waldman, pp. 86-97. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood

  • Luna, Lola. 1992. Ana Caro, una escritora profesional del Siglo de Oro: Vida y obra. Doctoral thesis, University of Seville (in Spanish)

  • Lundelius, Ruth. 1989. ‘Ana Caro: Spanish Poet and Dramatist’. In Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century, eds. Katharina M. Wilson and Frank J. Warnke, pp. 228-50. Athens,Georgia, University of Georgia Press

  • Mujica, Bárbara. 2004. ‘Ana Caro: La mujer se desquita’ . In Women Writers of Early Modern Spain: Sophia's Daughters, pp. 175-92. Yale language series. New Haven, Yale University Press (in Spanish)

    Includes short excerpts of Valor, agravio y mujer.

  • Rhodes, Elizabeth. 2005. ‘Redressing Ana Caro's Valor, agravio y mujer’, Hispanic Review, 73, 3, 309-28

  • Soufas, Teresa S. 1991. ‘Ana Caro’s Re-evaluation of the Mujer varonil and her theatrics in Valor, agravio y mujer’. In The Perception of Women in Spanish Theater of the Golden Age, eds. Anita K. Stoll and Dawn L. Smith, pp. 85-106. Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press

  • Stroud, Matthew D. 1986. ‘La literatura y la mujer in el Barroco: Valor, agravio y mujer de Ana Caro’. In Actas del VIII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, eds. A. David Kossoff, José Amor y Vázquez, Ruth H. Kossoff et al. pp. 605-12. Madrid, Istmo (in Spanish)

  • Vollendorf, Lisa. 2005. ‘Women Onstage: Angela de Azevedo, María de Zayas, and Ana Caro’. In The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain, pp. 74-89. Nashville, Vanderbilt University Press

    Review of this book by Kathleen Costales. 2008. Comedia Performance, 5, 1.

  • Williamsen, Amy R. and Valerie Hegstrom, eds. 1999. Engendering the Early Modern Stage: Women Playwrights in the Spanish Empire. New Orleans, University Press of the South

  • Williamsen, Amy. 1992. ‘Rewriting in the Margins: Caro’s Valor, agravio y mujer as Challenge to Dominant Discourse’, Bulletin of the Comediantes, 44, 21-30

Entry written by Kathleen Jeffs. Last updated on 19 January 2012.

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