Spoken like a woman
Subtitle: speech and gender in Athenian drama
By: Laura McClure.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Greek drama -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- Greece -- Athens.; Greek language -- Sex differences.; Gender identity in literature.; Greek language -- Spoken Greek.; Sex role in literature.; Speech in literature.; Athens (Greece) -- Intellectual life.
Description: "In ancient Athens, where freedom of speech derived from the power of male citizenship, women's voices were seldom heard in public. Female speech was more often represented in theatrical productions through women characters written and enacted by men. In Spoken Like a Woman, the first book-length study of women's speech in classical drama, Laura McClure explores the discursive practices attributed to women of fifth-century B.C. Greece and to what extent these representations reflected a larger reality.

Examining tragedies and comedies by a variety of authors, she illustrates how the dramatic poets exploited speech conventions among both women and men to construct characters and to convey urgent social and political issues."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-284) and index.