Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Domenico Lovascio is Researcher of English Literature at the University of Genoa.

• Introduction by Domenico Lovascio"Rome's Rich Ornament": Lavinia, Commoditization and the Senses in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus by Alice EquestriBlending Motherhoods: Volumnia and the Representation of Maternity in William Shakespeare's Coriolanus by Michela Compagnoni"Silent, Not as a Foole": William Shakespeare's Roman Women and Early Modern Tropes of Feminine Silence by Maria Elisa Montironi"Timidae obsequantur": Mothers and Wives in Matthew Gwinne’s Nero by Cristiano Ragni"Let Me Use All My Pleasures": The Ovidian Courtship of the Emperor’s Daughter in Ben Jonson’s Poetaster by Michele de Benedictis"Few Wise Women's Honesties": Dialoguing with Roman Women in Ben Jonson’s Roman Plays by Fabio CiambellaBen Jonson’s and Thomas May’s "Political Ladies": Forms of Female Political Agency by Angelica VedelagoBawds, Wives, and Foreigners: The Question of Female Agency in the Roman Plays of the Fletcher Canon by Domenico Lovascio"The Beauties of the Time": Roman Women in Philip Massinger’s The Roman Actor by Cristina Paravano"Poison on, Monsters": Female Poisoners in Early Modern Roman Tragedies by Emanuel StelzerNotes on ContributorsIndex