'Seré lo que tú quisieres': Female cross-dressers in three comedies by Tirso de Molina

This study examines Tirso de Molina’s creation of cross-dressed women in three comedies – La villana de la Sagra, La mujer por fuerza and La huerta de Juan Fernández – in order to explore the extent to which the dramatist uses the type to broach questions of sexual ambiguity. The argument, pace some recent scholarship inspired by feminist and psychoanalytic theory, is that Tirso (along with some of his fellow dramatists) used different forms of role-play, including cross-dressing, to undermine comically some of the social and behavioural norms of the period but did not prioritize an exploration of sexual ambiguity amongst these