Motherhood and patriarchal masculinities in sixteenth-century Italian comedy /

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...

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Main Author:	Manes, Yael
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2011.
Series:	Studies in performance and early modern drama.
Subjects:	Italian drama (Comedy) > History and criticism. Italian drama > To 1700 > History and criticism. Motherhood in literature. Masculinity in literature. Mothers in literature. Renaissance > Italy. DRAMA / Continental European. Electronic books.
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Summary:	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 Niccolò Machiavelli, to consider how erudite comedies functioned as ideological battlefields where the gender system of patriarchy was examined, negotiated and critiqued.
Item Description:	Description based on print version record. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (148 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781409434412 (electronic bk.) 1409434419 (electronic bk.)