Women in Roman Republican Drama (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Wisconsin Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Wisconsin Studies in Classics
Release date:	April 2015
Editors:	Dorota Dutsch • Sharon L James • David Konstan
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-299-30314-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
LSN:	0-299-30314-4
Barcode:	9780299303143

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