Women in Roman Republican Drama |
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| Editor:
| Dutsch, Dorota
James, Sharon L.
Konstan, David |
| Series title: | Wisconsin Studies in Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-299-30313-6 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $99.90 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionLatin 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.