Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy

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Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy is written by Dorota M. Dutsch and published by OUP Oxford. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0191559865 (ISBN 10) and 9780191559860 (ISBN 13).

As literature written in Latin has almost no female authors, we are dependent on male writers for some understanding of the way women would have spoken. Plautus (3rd to 2nd century BCE) and Terence (2nd century BCE) consistently write particular linguistic features into the lines spoken by their female characters: endearments, soft speech, and incoherent focus on numerous small problems. Dorota M. Dutsch describes the construction of this feminine idiom and asks whether it should be considered as evidence of how Roman women actually spoke.