Spoken Like a Woman : : Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama /

Spoken Like a Woman : : Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama / / Laura McClure.

In ancient Athens, where freedom of speech derived from the power of male citizenship, women's voices were seldom heard in public. Female speech was more often represented in theatrical productions through women characters written and enacted by men. In Spoken Like a Woman, the first book-lengt...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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McClure, Laura,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1999
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS
  • CHAPTER ONE. The City of Words: Speech in the Athenian Polis
  • CHAPTER TWO. Gender and Verbal Genres in Ancient Greece
  • CHAPTER THREE. Logos Gunaikos: Speech and Gender in Aeschylus' Oresteia
  • CHAPTER FOUR. At the House Door: Phaedra and the Politics of Reputation
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Women's Wordy Strife: Gossip and Invective in Euripides' Andromache
  • CHAPTER SIX. Obscenity, Gender, and Social Status in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae and Ecclesiazusae
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Conclusion
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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