“Women’s Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater is a historically and textually grounded study that makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of scholarship on early modern Spanish actors and the art of performance…Cruz Petersen’s study makes a significant contribution to comedia studies and will be of great interest to scholars in theater studies and women’s history”

— Mary Blythe Daniels

“En resumen, un lector interesado en recuperar la experiencia teatral de la España de la época, aunque no acepte la validez general de todo lo presentado por Cruz Petersen, encontrará un camino que le facilitará una entrada a la experiencia vivida, sensorial y corporal además de intelectual, al poder de la representación dramática y su capacidad de aumentar el horizonte de posibilidades para las mujeres de la época, tanto en el tablado como entre el público.”

— Margaret R. Greer

“Her study is historically and textually grounded while offering valuable insights and convincing arguments through a new and relevant theoretical lens. Petersen provides ample evidence of how the early modern woman actor might have gone about acquiring and perfecting the qualities of her profession through hard work and technical formation, or, as Petersen terms it, somatic training.”

— Susan Paun De García