Gender and politics in Greek tragedy
By: Michael X. Zelenak.
Series: Artists and issues in the theatre ;; v. 7
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.; Political plays, Greek -- History and criticism.; Politics and literature -- Greece.; Literature and society -- Greece.; Mythology, Greek, in literature.; Women and literature -- Greece.; Gender identity in literature.; Sex role in literature.
Description: "Theatrical tragedy, like all other major civic institutions of the fifth-century B.C. Athenian democratic patriarchy, was exclusively male. The course of western drama changed when women characters (played by transvestite male performers) were introduced.

Gender and Politics in Greek Tragedy explores themes and issues of gender identity and political ideology in plays by Aeschylus (Suppliant Maidens, Oresteia), Sophocles (Antigone, Philoctetes), and Euripides (Alcestis, Medea, Orestes, Helen, Iphigeneia in Aulis, Bakkhai). This is the first book-length treatment of the themes of gender and politics in ancient Greek tragedy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-149) and index.