Motherhood and Patriarchal Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century Italian Comedy

English

Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama Ser.

ISBN: 1409434419

EAN: 9781409434412

Category: History / Europe / Italy/Literary Criticism / Drama/Literary Criticism / General/

Publisher: Ashgate

Release Date: 12/01/2011

Synopsis: Exploring individual and collective formation of gender identities, this book analyses plays in the genre of 'erudite comedy' (commedia erudita), which was extremely popular among elite sixteenth-century Italians. Author Manes investigates five erudite comedies-one each by Ludovico Ariosto, Antonio Landi and Giovan Maria Cecchi, and two by Niccol'' Machiavelli, to consider how erudite comedies functioned as ideological battlefields where the gender system of patriarchy was examined, negotiated and critiqued.

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Motherhood and Patriarchal Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century Italian Comedy

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Pages: 158