The Lieutenant Nun
Annotated Translation of the Play, Historical Accounts and Documents about Antonio/Catalina de Erauso
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The Lieutenant Nun
Annotated Translation of the Play, Historical Accounts and Documents about Antonio/Catalina de Erauso
About this book
This volume contains the English translation of the seventeenth-century literary and archival materials about a Basque person who died under the name Antonio de Erauso (b. ~1580, d. 1650), bringing readers closer to an individual who could be considered a trans ancestor.
Born into a noble family in San Sebastian, Spain, as Catalina de Erauso, Erauso lived most of their life as a man, serving as a soldier in Peru and Chile, and working as a muleteer in Mexico until their death in 1650. This book provides – for the first time – an English translation of texts related to Erauso: the contemporary play Famosa comedia de la monja alférez (The Famous Play of the Lieutenant Nun), contemporary Accounts (Relaciones) about Erauso, selected archival documents about Erauso's Petition for a Pension to the Council of the Indies, and contemporary letters mentioning Erauso.
This book presents early modern scholars working in English with new material essential to understanding the historical and literary figure of Erauso, and historical documentation that provides a glimpse into the terms Erauso (and others) seemingly chose for themselves.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 1 Introduction: Translating a Trans Ancestor: Antonio/Catalina de Erauso
- 2 Foreword: Antonio/Catalina de Erauso, The Lieutenant Nun, and the Play with Portraits
- 3 The Lieutenant Nun: Translation of the Play La famosa comedia de la monja alférez
- 4 Accounts: Translations of Historical Relaciones about Erauso
- 5 Petitions: Translations of the Pamplona Petition and the Petition to the Council of the Indies
- 6 Afterword: The Lieutenant Nun and Early Modern Trans Drama
- Appendix 1: Translation of Pietro Della Valle's Letter
- Appendix 2: Gender Usage Table
- Appendix 3: Playbill from a 2022 Staged Reading
- Index