Women in Roman Republican Drama

By: Dorota Dutsch and Sharon L. James and David Konstan

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Synopsis: 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 Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780299303136
Publisher:: The University of Wisconsin Press
Date of Addition:: 07/22/15
Copyrighted By:: Sharon L. James Dorota Dutsch, David Konstan
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Literature and Fiction, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.