Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz

Juana Inés de Asbaje and Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (San Miguel Nepantla, New Spain, now Mexico-12 November 16 511 - Mexico City, April 17, 1695) was a Catholic nun , poet and playwright in New Spain of the Spanish Golden Age. Cultivated poetry and drama, and prose. Because of the importance of his work, he received the nickname of the Phoenix of America, the Tenth Muse Tenth Muse or mexicana.2At an early age learned to read and write. Belonged to the court of Viceroy Mancera. In 1667 he entered the religious life to devote himself entirely to literature. His most important patron was the Marquis de la Laguna, viceroys of New Spain, who published his works in Spain. He died of an epidemic on April 17, 1695.Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz is, next to Juan Ruiz de Alarcon and Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, the most prominent novohispana.3 literature in the field of lyrical work adheres to the guidelines of the Hispanic Baroque stage late. The poetry of Sor Juana production, which accounts for half of his work, is a place where culture converge in a New Spain in height, the culteranismo of Góngora and Quevedo and concepts work Calderón.4The dramatic work of Sor Juana is from the religious to the profane. His most notable works in this genre are more maze Love, The efforts of a house and a series of morality plays designed to represent the corte.5