Hercules and the King of Portugal - Dian Fox-Hindley - Bog

Investigates how representations of masculinity figure in the fashioning of Spanish national identity, scrutinizing ways that gender performances of two early modern male icons - Hercules and King Sebastian - are structured to express enduring nationhood. Dian Fox's analysis exposes how the two icons are subject to political manipulations in seventeenth-century Spanish theatre and other media.