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- Women in Roman Republican Drama
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
Latin plays were written for audiences whose gender perspectives and expectations were shaped by life in Rome, and the crowds watching the plays included both female citizens and female slaves. Relationships between men and women, ideas of masculinity and femininity, the stock characters of dowered wife and of prostitute—all of these are frequently staged in Roman tragedies and comedies. This is the first book to confront directly the role of women in Roman Republican plays of all genres, as well as to examine the role of gender in the influence of this tradition on later dramatists from Shakespeare to Sondheim.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-2
- Introduction
- pp. 3-14
- Part One. Females in Performance
- Slave-Woman Drag
- pp. 37-67
- Music and Gender in Terence’s Hecyra
- pp. 68-88
- Part Two. Women in Roman Drama and Society
- Women in Control
- pp. 91-107
- Roman Women in the Fabula Togata
- pp. 155-170
- Part Three. Receptions
- Shakespeare and the Roman Comic Meretrix
- pp. 213-231
- Contributors
- pp. 253-256
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299303136
Related ISBN(s)
9780299303143
MARC Record
OCLC
907336795
Pages
274
Launched on MUSE
2015-04-14
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015