Amor es más laberinto
1998
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Amor es más laberinto está ambientada en el mundo clásico. Se trata de un texto erudito, reflejo de la excelente biblioteca que logró reunir su autora. Por otra parte destaca la visión del amor que ofrece sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Este es un texto desprovisto de tapujos y sorprendente tratándose de una mujer de vida religiosa. La obra es por su trama una comedia «mitológica». Su acción, se basa en la fábula del laberinto de Creta. Sus personajes principales, Teseo y Baco, príncipes galanes, y Fedra y Ariadna, damas cortesanas, habitan el mundo entonces común de la comedia de capa y espada. Amor es más laberinto está marcada por la influencia del teatro cortesano del reinado de Felipe IV, especialmente por Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Fue concebida originalmente para honrar al flamante virrey de México, por lo que abundan las alusiones a su persona. En opinión de algunos estudiosos, el Minotauro representa al déspota y cruel antecesor del nuevo gobernante, mientras que el justo y honesto Teseo es, para Sor Juana, una personificación del virrey don Gaspar de la Cerda y Mendoza. Amor es más laberinto es, junto a Los empeños de una casa (publicada también en Linkgua ediciones) y La segunda Celestina, una de las tres obras dramáticas de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. La obra se estrenó el 11 de enero de 1689, durante las celebraciones por la asunción al virreinato de Gaspar de la Cerda y Mendoza. Fue escrita junto a fray Juan de Guevara, amigo de la poetisa, quien solamente escribió la segunda jornada del festejo teatral.
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Author
Juana Ines de la Cruz
Author · 23 books
Juana Inés de la Cruz was born in a town in the Valley of Mexico to a Creole mother Isabel Ramírez and a Spanish military father, Pedro Manuel de Asbaje. As a child, she learned Nahuatl (Uto-Aztec language spoken in Mexico and Central America) and read and write Spanish in the middle of three years. Thanks to her grandfather's lush library, Juana Inés de la Cruz read the Greek and Roman classics and the theology of the time, she learned Latin in a self-taught way. In 1665, admired for her talent and precocity, she was lady-in-waiting to Leonor Carreto, wife of Viceroy Antonio Sebastián de Toledo. Sponsored by the Marquises of Mancera, she shone in the viceregal court of New Spain for her erudition and versifying ability. In 1667, Juana Inés de la Cruz entered a convent of the Discalced Carmelites of Mexico but soon had to leave due to health problems. Two years later she entered the Order of St. Jerome, remaining there for the rest of her life and being visited by the most illustrious personalities of the time. She had several drawbacks to her activity as a writer, a fact that was frowned upon at the time and that Juana Inés de la Cruz always defended, claiming the right of women to learn. Shortly before her death, she was forced by her confessor to get rid of her library and her collection of musical and scientific instruments so as not to have problems with the Holy Inquisition, very active at that time. She died of a cholera epidemic at the age of forty-three, while helping her sick companions. The emergence of Sor Juana De La Cruz in the late seventeenth century was a cultural miracle and her whole life was a constant effort of stubborn personal and intellectual improvement.
