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Women in Roman Republican Drama

Women in Roman Republican Drama

Dutsch, Dorota

Paperback

Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics

Literary CriticismAncient RomeWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0299303144
ISBN13: 9780299303143
Publisher: Univ Of Wisconsin Pr
Published: Apr 27 2015
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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