TY - BOOK AU - Ciambella,Fabio AU - Compagnoni,Michela AU - De Benedictis,Michele AU - Equestri,Alice AU - Lovascio,Domenico AU - Montironi,Maria Elisa AU - Paravano,Cristina AU - Ragni,Cristiano AU - Stelzer,Emanuel AU - Vedelago,Angelica TI - Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries T2 - Late Tudor and Stuart Drama : Gender, Performance, and Material Culture SN - 9781501518560 U1 - 822/.3093522 23/eng/20230216 PY - 2020///] CY - Kalamazoo, MI PB - Medieval Institute Publications KW - English drama KW - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 KW - History and criticism KW - Romans in literature KW - Women in literature KW - Drama der frühen Neuzeit KW - Frauen KW - Gender KW - Klassische Antike KW - Rezeptionsforschung KW - Römische Stücke KW - HISTORY / Medieval KW - bisacsh KW - Classical Antiquity KW - Early Modern Drama KW - Reception Studies KW - Women N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501514203 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501514203 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501514203/original ER -