In Plautus’s plays, Roman men worried about wives’ spending, but avoided marrying wealthy women for fear they would become domineering, barking wives. … Read the post domineering, barking wives not worth their wealth in Plautus’s plays
Revising Leo of the eastern Seven Sages corpus, Matthew of Vendôme’s Latin comedy Milo promotes respect and poetic gender-justice for low-status men. … Read the post Matthew of Vendôme’s Milo: poetic justice for low-status men
In his Miles Gloriosus, Arnulf of Orléans reversed the braggart soldier’s character and men’s gender subservience in Plautus’s Miles Gloriosus. … Read the post Miles Gloriosus from Plautus to Arnulf of Orléans
Within the extensive intertexuality and dialog of Chaucer’s Merchant’s Tale, the Latin comedy Lidia provides the implicit voice for its marriage encomium. … Read the post marriage encomium in dialog with Lidia in Chaucer’s Merchant’s Tale
In the medieval Latin comedy Babio, the learned rustic Babio is cuckolded and castrated after aping a courtly lover to his step-daughter and straying wife. … Read the post Babio, courtly lover to his step-daughter, cuckolded & castrated