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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Women of Plautine Comedy
    sub title: Representative of the Roman Ideal?
  name:
    name part: Floyd, Laura E.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Moore, Timothy
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  type of resource: software, multimedia
  genre: Undergraduate thesis
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 1991
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    extent: 1 online resource (74 pages).
  abstract: After considering what is said about women and analyzing their individual characterizations, one question remains: are these Plautine women representative of the Roman ideal? The Roman ideal for womanhood, as established in the introduction, calls for very specific behavior. A woman was to be loyal, meek, faithful, chaste, honest, and, above all, obedient (Cf. Williams, 25; Pearce, 20); all the qualities Alcumena claims for herself. Where are hese women in Plautine comedy? In their place Plautus substitutes women with entirely different qualities. Plautine women are strong, intelligent, independent, clever, shrewd in financial matters, and powerful. Above all, they are not obedient. Even Alcumena, who claims to be the ideal wife, could hardly be called obedient or meek; her behavior when suspected of adultery by her husband is not conciliatory, but conviction in her version of the situation. The answer to the question, "where are these ideal women in Plautine comedy?", is that they are not present. The women of Plautine comedy are not representative of the Roman ideal. In the dialogue of Plautus, men and women say some pretty awful things about women. Women are bossy, nagging, selfish, sexually demanding, greedy, bitchy and merciless. The characters of Plautine comedy obviously view the women of Plautus as less than ideal. The actual characterizations of women also reveal they are not ideal Roman women, but instead of that being a negative fact, these Plautine women are positively admirable characters for different abilities and qualities than obedience and meekness.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Undergraduate thesis written for Program year: 1990/1991
  note: Digitized from print version held at Pickle Center High Density Storage, barcode 24829740
  note: University Undergraduate Fellow, sponsored by Modern Languages Department.
  note: HDR
  subject:
    topic: drama
  subject:
    topic: gender roles
  subject:
    topic: Plautus
  subject:
    topic: Roman comedy
  subject:
    topic: women
  identifier: https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/CAPSTONE-FloydL_1991
  record info:
    record creation date: 231116
    record change date: 20240301201130.6
    record identifier: in00004780641