Travestidos por humor y por amor en la novela corta barroca: Castillo Solórzano

Abstract

Although it is less frequent than in Spanish Comedia, exchanging clothes among both sexes also occurs in Baroque short Novel. As it has been highlighted for theater, men in woman's clothes are rare and their utility in the plot is smaller than women in men's clothes. In any case, the possibility of wearing women's clothes was approved by most authors/playwriters. In Castillo's Works, the motif tends to be comical/humorous, and only rarely has an erotic purpose, always following conservative patterns and never in a modern transvestism sense.

Keywords

• Castillo Solórzano Alonso de
• novella
• transvestism
• man on woman clothes