Descripción del título
Roman Women in Shakespeare ...
Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries explores the crucial role of Roman female characters in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. While much has been written on male characters in the Roman plays as well as on non-Roman women in early modern English drama, very little attention has been paid to the issues of what makes Roman women 'Roman' and what their role in those plays is beyond their supposed function as supporting characters for the male protagonists. Through the exploration of a broad array of works produced by such diverse playwrights as Samuel Brandon, William Shakespeare, Matthew Gwynne, Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Thomas May, and Nathaniel Richards under three such different monarchs as Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I, Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries contributes to a more precise assessment of the practices through which female identities were discussed in literature in the specific context of Roman drama and a more nuanced understanding of the ways in which accounts of Roman women were appropriated, manipulated and recreated in early modern England
Monografía
monografia Rebiun34825953 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun34825953 m o d cr cnu|||||||| 200522s2020 gw o 00 0 eng d 1-5015-1420-2 1-5015-1405-9 10.1515/9781501514203 doi CBUC 991013163718106708 MdBmJHUP MdBmJHUP eng miu US-MI HIS037010 bisacsh 822.33 23 Roman Women in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries edited by Domenico Lovascio Berlin De Gruyter 2020 Berlin Berlin De Gruyter 2020 1 online resource (vi, 239 pages) 1 online resource (vi, 239 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Late Tudor and Stuart Drama Includes bibliographical references and index Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Roman Women in Early Modern English Drama -- "Rome's Rich Ornament": Lavinia, Commoditization, and the Senses in William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus -- Blending Motherhoods: Volumnia and the Representation of Maternity in William Shakespeare's Coriolanus -- "Silent, Not as a Foole": William Shakespeare's Roman Women and Early Modern Tropes of Feminine Silence -- "Timidae obsequantur": Mothers and Wives in Matthew Gwinne's Nero -- "Let Me Use All My Pleasures": The Ovidian Courtship of the Emperor's Daughter in Ben Jonson's Poetaster -- "Few Wise Women's Honesties": Dialoguing with Roman Women in Ben Jonson's Roman Plays -- Ben Jonson's and Thomas May's "Political Ladies": Forms of Female Political Agency -- Bawds, Wives, and Foreigners: The Question of Female Agency in the Roman Plays of the Fletcher Canon -- "The Beauties of the Time": Roman Women in Philip Massinger's The Roman Actor -- "Poison on, Monsters": Female Poisoners in Early Modern Roman Tragedies -- Notes on Contributors -- Index Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries explores the crucial role of Roman female characters in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. While much has been written on male characters in the Roman plays as well as on non-Roman women in early modern English drama, very little attention has been paid to the issues of what makes Roman women 'Roman' and what their role in those plays is beyond their supposed function as supporting characters for the male protagonists. Through the exploration of a broad array of works produced by such diverse playwrights as Samuel Brandon, William Shakespeare, Matthew Gwynne, Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Thomas May, and Nathaniel Richards under three such different monarchs as Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I, Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries contributes to a more precise assessment of the practices through which female identities were discussed in literature in the specific context of Roman drama and a more nuanced understanding of the ways in which accounts of Roman women were appropriated, manipulated and recreated in early modern England Issued also in print In English Shakespeare, William 1564-1616)- Contemporaries Shakespeare, William 1564-1616) English drama- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600- History and criticism Women in literature Romans in literature Contemporaries English drama- Early modern and Elizabethan Romans in literature Women in literature Classical Antiquity Early Modern Drama Gender Reception Studies Women Electronic books Lovascio, Domenico 1-5015-1856-9 Late Tudor and Stuart drama