Women in Roman Republican drama
By: edited by Dorota Dutsch, Sharon L. James, David Konstan
Contributors: James, Sharon L., editor; Konstan, David, editor
Series: Wisconsin studies in classics; Wisconsin studies in classics
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780299303143
Subjects: History and criticism; Latin drama; Women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One: Females in performance. Feats of flesh: the female body on the Plautine stage / Dorota Dutsch; title: Slave-woman drag / Amy Richlin; title: Music and gender in Terence's Hecyra / Timothy J. Moore; title: Part Two: Women in Roman drama and society. Women in control / Elaine Fantham; title: Mater, oratio, filia: listening to mothers in Roman comedy / Sharon L. James; title: The many shapes of sisterhood in Roman comedy / Anne Feltovich; title: Roman women in the Fabula Togata / Jarrett Welsh; title: Haut facul ... femina una invenitur bona? Representations of women in Republican tragedy / Gesine Manuwald; title: Part Three: Receptions. Machiavelli's Mandragola and the logic of seduction / Valeria Cinaglia and David Konstan; title: Shakespeare and the Roman comic meretrix / Ariana Traill; title: Juno's triumph in Antonio Jose da Silva's Anfitriao ou Jupiter e Alcmena / Rodrigo T. Goncalves.