Phantom Lady: Invisible Mistresses and Mythologizing Womanhood

In this episode, hosts Austen Bell and Cory Drozdowski illuminate the literary tradition of the invisible mistress trope in Spanish Golden Age drama and apply gender theory to explode an understanding of how gender works within Pedro Calderon de la Barca's La dama duende, also known as The Phantom Lady. Meet the curious figure of the duende, explore how thinking expansively about gender presentation/ representation in the Cupid and Psyche myth can help expand the world of The Phantom Lady, and think through the dramaturgical applications of Butler and de Beauvoir's ideas. Oh, and you'll also learn what Barbie has to do with it all, too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.