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.

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Information

Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press

Year

2015

ISBN

9780299303136

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction (Dorota Dutsch, Sharon L. James, and David Konstan)
Part One. Females in Performance
Part Two. Women in Roman Drama and Society
Part Three. Receptions
Contributors
Index