Abstract:A close analysis of the heroines in Las paredes oyen, La prueba de las promesas , and La verdad sospechosa proves that Alarcón's female protagonists are not as selfish, unfeeling, and hypocritical as traditional scholarship has described them. The heroines of these plays are independent, active, and decisive women, making choices and determining not only their own destinies but the heroes' destinies as well. Traditional scholarship also criticizes Alarcón's female characters as "undistinguished and undistingui… Show more
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