Abstract The Chamizal National Memorial served not only as a stage setting for Golden Age Spanish drama but also as a venue for women dramatists, the dramaturgas, whose stage history is often undocumented. This article examines the only two women to be produced on the Chamizal stage, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and María de Zayas. This includes the 1992 performance of the Loa of El divino Narciso and the 2002 translation of La traición en la amistad as Friendship Betrayed. Issues include staging of the conquest of Mexico and male vulnerability facing female empowerment. Productions at the Chamizal also led to other performances of dramaturgas elsewhere, Leonor de la Cueva y Silva and Ana Caro. The Chamizal stage provided incentive to directors to stage works by women who had often remained voiceless.
Sharon D. Voros (Fri,) studied this question.