Malvaloca is a 1912 play written by the Spanish brothers Joaquín Álvarez Quintero and Serafín Álvarez Quintero. It has been adapted into films three times. [1] A fallen woman from Málaga is eventually redeemed. The title refers to the name of the leading character.
The term fallen woman was used to describe a woman who has "lost her innocence", and fallen from the grace of God. In 19th-century Britain especially, the meaning came to be closely associated with the loss or surrender of a woman's chastity and with female promiscuity. Its use was an expression of the belief that to be socially and morally acceptable, a woman's sexuality and experience should be entirely restricted to marriage, and that she should also be under the supervision and care of an authoritative man. Used when society offered few employment opportunities for women in times of crisis or hardship, the term was often more specifically associated with prostitution, which was regarded as both cause and effect of a woman being "fallen". The term is considered to be anachronistic in the 21st century, although it has considerable importance in social history and appears in many literary works.
Málaga is a municipality, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain. With a population of 571,026 in 2018, it is the second-most populous city of Andalusia and the sixth-largest in Spain. The southernmost large city in Europe, it lies on the Costa del Sol of the Mediterranean, about 100 kilometres east of the Strait of Gibraltar and about 130 km (80.78 mi) north of Africa.
Serafín Álvarez Quintero and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero were Spanish dramatists.
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Quintero is a Spanish surname originating in the Spanish region of Galicia. The name comes from quinto or quinta which means "fifth". It is possible that a "quintero" was a renter of quintas. The quintero would rent one-fifth of the land and pay as rent one-fifith of his produce of the land to the landlord.
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