Los coloquios del Alma: Cuatro dramas alegóricos de Sor Marcela de San Félix, hija de Lope de Vega
edited by Susan M. Smith & Georgina Sabat de Rivers

Sor Marcela de San Félix (1605-1687) was a Discalced Trinitarian nun and the illegitimate daughter of Lope de Vega. Like her father she was also a poet and dramatist. Her work, however, intended only as entertainment and instruction for her cloistered sisters, remained largely unknown in the convent archives in Madrid until the twentieth century.

    Coloquios del Alma is the first edition of four of her allegorical plays prepared specifically for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. This text contains an introduction to Sor Marcela with an analysis of her themes and characters, vocabulary glosses in the margins, and footnotes on religious terminology and historical references.

Ediciones críticas #30 isbn: 978-1-58871-101-4, (PB) 228 pp, $22.95