id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_yckwtf5k25a3db7uylgcioctqy Lisa Sampson Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy. Alexandra Coller. London: Routledge, 2017. xii + 282 pp. $149.95 2019 3 .pdf application/pdf 1475 79 55 to establish a dialogue between the historical research on the specific problem of allegory/allegoresis and the theoretical reflection upon the transhistorical categories that Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy. Costa) in the secular genres of comedy, tragedy, and pastoral drama composed in ca. [2011], chapter 2, "Drama"), and studies of individual plays and genres, offering Coller traces largely chronologically—across comedy, tragedy, and pastoral tragicomedy—the development of female-centered thematics (e.g., marriage and essays) set up discussion across a wide range of plays of female-oriented themes, including education and the trope of cross-dressing in comedy (chapter 1), and friendship and The second part demonstrates how pastoral tragicomedy, the genre most conducive to women (six plays), allowed creative challenges to gender stereotypes and generic conventions, as in Miani's lively nymph-satyr scene (chapter as before, Coller makes a strong case for closely reading these female-authored plays to ./cache/work_yckwtf5k25a3db7uylgcioctqy.pdf ./txt/work_yckwtf5k25a3db7uylgcioctqy.txt