La mujer vestida de hombre en el teatro de Cervantes

Women dressed as men first appeared in the Madrid corrales in 1587. Because of its obvious erotic appeal, the practice was banned in the theater regulations promulgated in 1608 and 1615, but playwrights and actors found ways to get around the prohibitions. Cervantes made very little use of the technique, and this can be interpreted as a criticism of Lope de Vega and other contemporary playwrights