![]() ![]() ![]() Losing the challenge costs him his life, at the same time it guarantees his character a prominent place in western cultural history. The young, virile, and vicious protagonist of El burlador de Sevilla challenges dominant precepts of natural order by executing a dualistic performance comprised of both Female and Male attributes. ![]() The relative disorder associated with Woman indirectly manifest in this dictionary entry is directly apparent in documents such as seventeenth-century prescriptive literature and pragmdticas against male effeminate behavior.' Such references provide ample evidence of how gender constituted one of the most rigid categories of "la regla y orden natural" through which baroque Spanish society proposed to sustain and reproduce itself. Covarrubias's definition reveals his culture's understanding of the presumably feminine source of the monstrous for any biology in which females give birth. Abstract: In his 1611 Tesoro de la lengua castellana o espanola, Sebastian de Covarrubias defines "monstruo" as "cualquier parto contra la regla y orden natural" (761).
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