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"Dans sa démarche analytique, l'auteure remplit avec mesure et équilibre la distance, parfois insurmontable, qui sépare l'intention de Ion Luca Caragiale - telle qu'elle ressort de ses textes dramatiques - et le jeu des acteurs proprement dit, c'est-à-dire l'incarnation des personnages de papier. Ce n'est pas un discours didactique que propose Ioana Raluca Zaharia, mais un ouvrage proche de l'essai, vif, pétri d'analogies et de comparaisons pertinentes, alliant une bonne compréhension et une judicieuse utilisation des théories au service de sa propre démarche scientifique. L'attention se porte vers la mise en valeur de Ion Luca Caragiale en qualité de théoricien du théâtre, comme il s'en explique dans ses articles. La mise en lumière de l'aspect théorique de la personnalité de Caragiale est d'autant plus intéressante que l'auteure la met en relation avec des théoriciens de référence du genre dramatique de la seconde moitié du siècle dernier comme Julian Beck, Judith Malina ou Jerzy Grotowski, mettant ainsi en évidence l'actualité de Caragiale."

Women in literature. --- Caragiale, I. L. --- Characters and characteristics.

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This is a book about how Molière, France's most celebrated author of comedies, made something strikingly new out of the traditional comedy plot of thwarted courtship. Though justly celebrated for his mastery of physical comedy and farce, one of Molière's key moves was to pay attention to the way women could use language. Seventeenth-century France was a time when speaking well became exceptionally important, and in this arena women were the trend-setters. Among the most important places to display taste and social skills were the salons, gatherings presided over by women. Yet women still enjoyed little in the way of rights, particularly regarding a central decision in their lives: the choice of a husband. French regulations of marriage contracts became increasingly restrictive, largely to the detriment of women. To draw attention to their plight, women novelists and essayists presented case studies in how men and women misunderstood one another, how women were coerced to wed, how marriages could become nightmares, and how courtships could fail. Against this fraught social background Molière showed women using one of the few assets they had, their mastery of words, and in particular the rhetoric of irony, to frustrate the plans of fathers, guardians, and other authority figures. The comedies discussed here include very well-known plays such as 'The Misanthrope', 'Tartuffe', 'The Learned Ladies', 'The School for Wives' and 'Don Juan', and also less known but revealing and thought-provoking works such as 'The School for Husbands', 'George Dandin' and 'Monsieur de Pourceaugnac'.

Women in literature --- Irony in literature --- Molière, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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"Demanding Witness investigates how the trauma of female characters is represented and received in four Greek tragedies about homecoming: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophocles' Women of Trachis, and Euripides' Heracles and Helen. Through discussions of modern trauma concepts alongside historical and literary analyses of these plays, Erika L. Weiberg examines how and why female characters' expressions of psychological pain are hotly contested, silenced, and suppressed by other characters and sometimes by the plot of the play itself. Tragic representations of female noncombatants' trauma after war expose the ripple effects of violence that wars create, even for individuals and communities distant from the fighting. At the same time, these characters' expressions of trauma also create a conflict of witnessing for other characters and the audience. By shifting focus to the returning hero's wife and the women he enslaves, Weiberg calls attention to the detrimental effects of structural and chronic forms of trauma in addition to trauma caused by discrete, catastrophic events. Weiberg argues that recognizing women's trauma in these tragedies requires questioning how Greek society was organized through hierarchies that privilege the hero's story of trauma and recovery to the exclusion of other types of stories and experiences"--

Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Women in literature --- Psychic trauma in literature --- War --- History and criticism --- Psychological aspects

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"Out of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up sex work as a means of escape from the patriarchal control of fathers and husbands to pursue pleasure, wealth, and personal independence outside the private, domestic sphere. In these anonymously published novels, the heroines proudly declare themselves prostitutes, or putains, and use the desire they arouse, the professional skills they develop, and the network of female friends they create to exploit, humiliate, and financially ruin wealthy and powerful men. In pursuing their desires, the putains challenge contemporary notions of womanhood and expose the injustices of ancien-régime France. Until the French Revolution spelled the end of the genre, these novels proposed not only an appealing libertine utopia in which libertine women enjoy the same benefits as their male counterparts, but also entirely new ways of looking at systems of power, gender, and sexuality"--

Autobiographical fiction, French --- French fiction --- Prostitutes in literature --- Libertines in literature --- Women in literature --- History and criticism

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At a time when Christianity was becoming the dominant religion in the Byzantine Roman Empire, Romanos the Melodist (ca. 485–565) was a composer of songs for festivals and rituals in late antique Constantinople. Most of his songs include dramatic dialogues or monologues woven with imagery from ordinary life, and his name became inseparably tied to the kontakion, a genre of dramatic hymn. Later Byzantine religious poets enthusiastically praised his creative virtuosity and a legend claimed that Romanos’s inspiration came directly from the Virgin Mary herself.Songs about Women contains eighteen works related to the liturgical calendar that feature important female characters, many portrayed as models for Christian life. They appear as heroines and villains, saints and sinners, often as transgressive and bold. Romanos’s songs offer intriguing perspectives on gender ideals and women’s roles in the early Byzantine world.This edition presents a new translation of the Byzantine Greek texts into English.

Christian poetry, Byzantine --- Hymns, Greek --- Women in the Bible --- Women in literature --- Themes, motives --- Mary, --- In literature.