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Spoken like a woman : speech and gender in Athenian drama

Title
  1. Spoken like a woman : speech and gender in Athenian drama / Laura McClure.
Published by
  1. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.
Author
  1. McClure, Laura, 1959-

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Description
  1. 293 pages; 25 cm
Summary
  1. "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
  1. Greek drama > History and criticism
  2. Women and literature > Greece > Athens
  3. Greek language > Sex differences
  4. Gender identity in literature
  5. Greek language > Spoken Greek
  6. Sex role in literature
  7. Speech in literature
  8. Gender identity in literature
  9. Greek drama
  10. Greek language > Sex differences
  11. Greek language > Spoken Greek
  12. Intellectual life
  13. Sex role in literature
  14. Speech in literature
  15. Women and literature
  16. Toneelstukken
  17. Grieks
  18. Vrouwenfiguren
  19. Sekseverschillen
  20. Politieke aspecten
  21. Sociale aspecten
  22. Gender roles
  23. Grec (langue) > Différences entre sexes
  24. Rôle selon le sexe > Dans la littérature
  25. Théâtre grec > Histoire et critique
  26. Femmes et littérature > Grèce > Athènes (Grèce) > Histoire
  27. Athens (Greece) > Intellectual life
  28. Greece > Athens
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-284) and index.