And they didn’t live happily ever after: the rewriting of the fairy tale and the problematization of female subjectivity in Nueva historia de la princesa y el dragón by Carmen Resino

Abstract

This article proposes a reading of Nueva historia de la princesa y el dragón (1989), by Carmen Resino. Framed in the new drama written by women in the scene of Spain in the 80s, we will analyze how the play uses the intertext of the traditional fairy tale in order to parody, destroy and replace it. In this piece, the universal referent of the fairy tale is the vehicle to analyze and problematize the complexities and paradoxes of the feminine identity process, underlines the conflict between cultural expectations and personal needs, and the conflictive relationship between women and power, which makes the conclusive ending «and they lived happily ever after» impossible.

Keywords

• carmen resino
• dramaturgia femenina
• cuentos de hadas
• feminismo