SOURCE: Rogers, Elizabeth S. “Role Constraints versus Self-Identity in La tejedora de sueños and Anillos para una dama.” Modern Drama XXVI, no. 3 (September 1983): 310-19.

In the following essay, Rogers finds parallels between the female protagonists of La tejedora de sueños and Antonio Gala's Anillos para una dama, asserting that both women “experience the dual conflict of coping with both the external demands of their roles and the personal needs for self-identity, freedom, and self-fulfillment as human beings and as women.”

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