Gender and the Italian Stage
Subtitle: From the Renaissance to the Present Day
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780521590280
Subjects: Plays & playwrights; Theater - History & Criticism; Performing Arts/Dance; Sexuality In Literature; Literary Criticism; Plays / Drama; Italian; Italy; Continental European; Women's Studies - History; Italian drama--History and criticism; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; European - Italian; Drama; History and criticism; Italian Drama; Sex in literature; Sex role in literature
First sentence: This exploration of gender on the Italian stage begins with an assessment of the role of female characters in Italian Renaissance comedy.