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Spoken like a woman : speech and gender in Athenian drama
- Title
- Spoken like a woman : speech and gender in Athenian drama / Laura McClure.
- Author
- McClure, Laura, 1959-
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.
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- Description
- 293 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "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-length study of women's speech in classical drama, Laura McClure explores the discursive practices attributed to women of fifth-century B.C. Greece and to what extent these representations reflected a larger reality. Examining tragedies and comedies by a variety of authors, she illustrates how the dramatic poets exploited speech conventions among both women and men to construct characters and to convey urgent social and political issues."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Greek drama > History and criticism
- Women and literature > Greece > Athens
- Greek language > Sex differences
- Gender identity in literature
- Greek language > Spoken Greek
- Sex role in literature
- Speech in literature
- Gender identity in literature
- Greek drama
- Greek language > Sex differences
- Greek language > Spoken Greek
- Intellectual life
- Sex role in literature
- Speech in literature
- Women and literature
- Toneelstukken
- Grieks
- Vrouwenfiguren
- Sekseverschillen
- Politieke aspecten
- Sociale aspecten
- Gender roles
- Grec (langue) > Différences entre sexes
- Rôle selon le sexe > Dans la littérature
- Théâtre grec > Histoire et critique
- Femmes et littérature > Grèce > Athènes (Grèce) > Histoire
- Athens (Greece) > Intellectual life
- Greece > Athens
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-284) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. City of Words: Speech in the Athenian Polis -- Ch. 2. Gender and Verbal Genres in Ancient Greece -- Ch. 3. Logos Gunaikos: Speech and Gender in Aeschylus' Oresteia -- Ch. 4. At the House Door: Phaedra and the Politics of Reputation -- Ch. 5. Women's Wordy Strife: Gossip and Invective in Euripides' Andromache -- Ch. 6. Obscenity, Gender, and Social Status in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae and Ecclesiazusae -- Ch. 7. Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0691017301
- 9780691017303
- 9780691144412
- 0691144419
- LCCN
- 98055157
- OCLC
- ocm40538293
- 40538293
- SCSB-797206
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library