The heroine, Leonor, has been jilted by her lover, Juan. She disguises herself as a man in order to challenge him, hoping to restore her lost honour with his death. She chases him across the sea, gets caught in a love triangle (wooing her rival, Estela, as a man), and successfully manipulates everyone in her path. Finally she deceives the man who deceived her and Juan is overjoyed to marry her.
This play features a woman, dressed as a man, who travels across the sea to vindicate her honour. Her onetime lover, Juan, promised marriage and fled, betraying their love and damaging ... (Read more...)
The historical event of a peace treaty between Spain and Holland, signed in 1621 and ending twelve years of fighting, figures in the plot of this play; Juan relaxes in Brussels, reliev... (Read more...)
Most studies of Valor, agravio y mujer focus on the heroine, the cross-dressing Leonor who masquerades as a man in order to trick her ex-lover into marrying her. The play is well known ... (Read more...)
Delgado dates the play as written between 1609-1620 (1993: 28); but the historical event of the peace treaty with Holland in 1621, which figures in the play, casts doubt on these dates... (Read more...)
Caro Mallén de Soto, Ana. 1997. Valor, agravio y mujer. In Women’s Acts: Plays by Women Dramatists of Spain’s Golden Age, ed. Teresa Scott Soufas, pp. 163-94. Lexington, University Pre... (Read more...)
The original seventeenth-century publication date is unknown.
Armas, Frederick de. 1976. The Invisible Mistress: Aspects of Feminism and Fantasy in the Golden Age. Biblioteca Siglo de Oro. Charlottesville, Virginia
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
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)
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
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Entry written by Kathleen Jeffs. Last updated on 4 October 2010.