Intersecting Identities: Troubled and Troubling Representations of Queenship on Stage

长期以来，身份认同一直被认为是经验、忠诚和社区、差异和归属之间的动态互动。然而，最近，人们开始认识到其内在的多元性：身份是在多种社会和意识形态需求的交叉点上构建的。使用交叉性的概念，我的研究将探讨17世纪的西班牙戏剧与身份的历史化的概念和危机，它正在经历作为西班牙帝国意识形态内的紧张局势的结果。具体来说，我的项目将研究女王的问题悖论，她的性别要求服从，但她的等级地位需要权威。通过分析与同期学术文学和政治著作相关的戏剧中女王身份的表现，我将揭示女王政治、个人和社会身份中的紧张关系和交叉点。我对这个项目的研究方法本质上是跨学科的，它将把文艺复兴时期的政治理论和当前的性别理论应用于早期现代西班牙戏剧。这样一来，它将推动对王权和女性地位的广泛批评，也将填补与王朝重要但通常不稳定的女王形象有关的学术上的重大空白。

Identity has long been acknowledged as the dynamic interaction between experience, allegiance and community, between difference and belonging. More recently, however, has come a recognition of its intrinsic plurality: identity is constructed at the intersection of multiple social and ideological demands. Using the notion of intersectionality, my research will explore seventeenth-century Spanish drama in relation to a historicised concept of identity and the crisis it was undergoing as a result of tensions within Spanish imperial ideology.Specifically, my project will examine the problematic paradox of the queen, whose gender demanded subordination but whose hierarchical position necessitated authority. By analysing the representation of queenship in the drama of the period in relation to concurrent scholastic literature and political writings, I will uncover tensions and intersections within a queen's political, personal and social identities.My approach to this project is inherently interdisciplinary it will apply both Renaissance political theory and current strains of gender theory to Early Modern Spanish drama. In so doing it will move the extensive criticism concerning kingship and woman's position forward and will also fill the significant lacuna in scholarship relating to the dynastically essential yet generically unstable figure of the queen.