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Subject(s)

• Latin drama—History and criticism [Browse]
• Women in literature [Browse]

Editor

• Dutsch, Dorota [Browse]
• James, Sharon L. [Browse]
• Konstan, David [Browse]

Series

Wisconsin studies in classics. [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Part One: Females in performance. Feats of flesh: the female body on the Plautine stage / Dorota Dutsch
• Slave-woman drag / Amy Richlin
• Music and gender in Terence's Hecyra / Timothy J. Moore
• Part Two: Women in Roman drama and society. Women in control / Elaine Fantham
• Mater, oratio, filia: listening to mothers in Roman comedy / Sharon L. James
• The many shapes of sisterhood in Roman comedy / Anne Feltovich
• Roman women in the Fabula Togata / Jarrett Welsh
• Haut facul ... femina una invenitur bona? Representations of women in Republican tragedy / Gesine Manuwald
• Part Three: Receptions. Machiavelli's Mandragola and the logic of seduction / Valeria Cinaglia and David Konstan
• Shakespeare and the Roman comic meretrix / Ariana Traill
• Juno's triumph in Antonio Jose da Silva's Anfitriao ou Jupiter e Alcmena / Rodrigo T. Goncalves.

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Other title(s)

Project Muse UPCC books.

ISBN

• 9780299303143 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0299303144 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2014030773

OCLC

888401142

RCP

H - S

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