Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama by Laura McClure

Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama

Laura McClure

336 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging slow-paced
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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 m...

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