Gender and the Italian Stage: From the Renaissance to the Present Day

by Maggie Günsberg

Book Overview

Maggie G nsberg explores gender portrayal on the Italian stage, and its shifting relationship with other social categories of class, age and the family from the Renaissance to the present day. She examines both the formal properties of drama and the conventions of drama in performance. An interdisciplinary approach and feminist perspective inform her critique of work by Machiavelli, Ariosto, Goldoni, D'Annunzio and Pirandello. She concludes by assessing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521041295
• ISBN13: 9780521041294
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"