Persephone's girdle : narratives of rape in seventeenth-century Spanish literature / Marcia L. Welles.

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2000.

xi, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes index and bibliography: p. 225-248.

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the title -- Introduction -- "A blood puzzle": Cervantes's "La fuerza de la sangre" -- Rojas Zorrilla's Lucrecia y Tarquino: "The taming of lucretia" or the staging of perverse desire and Lope's El príncipe despeñado: "Lucretia interrupta" -- Diversionary tactic: women in the peasant honor plays -- "The rape of Deianeira" in Calderón's El pintor de su deshonra -- The Progne y Filomena plays of Guillén de Castro and Rojas Zorrilla -- The transformation of Tamar in Tirso's La venganza de Tamar and Calderón's Los cabellos de Absalón -- Julia: the prison house of silence -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.