Characteristics of her work

She wrote many plays. Her most famous comedy is The Trials of a house, which in some of its scenes reminiscent of the work of Lope de Vega. Another of her famous plays is Love is more labyrinth, which was estimated by his creation of characters like Theseus, the main hero. Her three mystery plays reveal the theological side of his work: The martyr, where mitifica San Hermenegildo- sacrament, Joseph's Sceptre and The Divine Narcissus, written to be represented in court Madrid.


It also highlights his poetry, which adds about half of its production; love poems in which deception is a very useful resource, lobby poems and occasional compositions in honor of personages of the time. Other outstanding works of Sor Juana are carols and tocotin, sort of derivation of this kind that intersperses passages in original languages. Sor Juana also wrote a treatise on music called The snail, which has not been found, however she considered a bad work and may be that because it would not have allowed his difusión