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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays explores issues connected to female identities in the early modern English plays set in ancient Rome.
Table of ContentsIntroduction by Domenico Lovascio
"Rome's Rich Ornament": Lavinia, Commoditization and the Senses in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus by Alice Equestri
Blending Motherhoods: Volumnia and the Representation of Maternity in William Shakespeare's Coriolanus by Michela Compagnoni
"Silent, Not as a Foole": William Shakespeare's Roman Women and Early Modern Tropes of Feminine Silence by Maria Elisa Montironi
"Timidae obsequantur": Mothers and Wives in Matthew Gwinne’s Nero by Cristiano Ragni
"Let Me Use All My Pleasures": The Ovidian Courtship of the Emperor’s Daughter in Ben Jonson’s Poetaster by Michele de Benedictis
"Few Wise Women's Honesties": Dialoguing with Roman Women in Ben Jonson’s Roman Plays by Fabio Ciambella
Ben Jonson’s and Thomas May’s "Political Ladies": Forms of Female Political Agency by Angelica Vedelago
Bawds, Wives, and Foreigners: The Question of Female Agency in the Roman Plays of the Fletcher Canon by Domenico Lovascio
"The Beauties of the Time": Roman Women in Philip Massinger’s The Roman Actor by Cristina Paravano
"Poison on, Monsters": Female Poisoners in Early Modern Roman Tragedies by Emanuel Stelzer
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