Women in Roman Republican drama / edited by Dorota Dutsch, Sharon L. James, David Konstan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dutsch, Dorota, editor.

James, Sharon L., editor.

Konstan, David, editor.

Series:

Wisconsin studies in classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin drama--History and criticism.

Latin drama.

Women in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 260 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2015]

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. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780299303143

0299303144

OCLC:

888401142