Hercules and the King of Portugal: Icons of Masculinity and Nation in Calderón's Spain. Dian Fox. New Hispanisms. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. xxx + 304 pp. $55

• Published in: Renaissance quarterly Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 345 - 346
• Main Author: Martí, Oriol Miró
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.04.2021
• Subjects: 17th century; Cultural identity; Gender studies; Masculinity; National identity; Portuguese language; Renaissance period; Spanish language; Portugal; Spain

Above all else, this work is an ideological analysis exposing the way two of the most mainstream icons of Spanish identity were subject to political manipulations in seventeenth-century Spanish drama, which lied about gendered processes considered “inconceivable, or at least not printable out of res...