During the Golden Age of Spanish theater Tirso de Molina was especially well
known for his prortrayal of women and his use of female disguise and crossdressing
on stage. This work examines how this tendency can be understood
as a mechanism for females in the play, and in society as a whole, to skirt
societal rules and gain power to act and achieve their goals. Although crossdressing
has typically been understood in psycho-sexual terms, I argue that
an analysis using power mechanisms is a better fit. The dificullty that results
in the use of disguise and cross-dressing is a tendency for Tirsos...