Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Published by Medieval Institute Publications 2020

Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Edited by: Domenico Lovascio

In the series Late Tudor and Stuart Drama

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501514203

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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.

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Domenico Lovascio, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy.

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Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction: Roman Women in Early Modern English Drama Domenico Lovascio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
“Rome’s Rich Ornament”: Lavinia, Commoditization, and the Senses in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus Alice Equestri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Blending Motherhoods: Volumnia and the Representation of Maternity in William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus Michela Compagnoni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
“Silent, Not as a Foole”: William Shakespeare’s Roman Women and Early Modern Tropes of Feminine Silence Maria Elisa Montironi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
“Timidae obsequantur”: Mothers and Wives in Matthew Gwinne’s Nero Cristiano Ragni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
“Let Me Use All My Pleasures”: The Ovidian Courtship of the Emperor’s Daughter in Ben Jonson’s Poetaster Michele De Benedictis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
“Few Wise Women’s Honesties”: Dialoguing with Roman Women in Ben Jonson’s Roman Plays Fabio Ciambella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Ben Jonson’s and Thomas May’s “Political Ladies”: Forms of Female Political Agency Angelica Vedelago Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Bawds, Wives, and Foreigners: The Question of Female Agency in the Roman Plays of the Fletcher Canon Domenico Lovascio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
“The Beauties of the Time”: Roman Women in Philip Massinger’s The Roman Actor Cristina Paravano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
“Poison on, Monsters”: Female Poisoners in Early Modern Roman Tragedies Emanuel Stelzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231

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Language: English
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Audience: Medievalists, scholars of English Literature and Gender Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 239
Illustrations
- Tables: 2
Keywords: Women; Gender; Reception Studies; Classical Antiquity; Early Modern Drama

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Published: April 6, 2020
ISBN: 9781501514203

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Published: April 6, 2020
ISBN: 9781501518560