The 12th-century Latin comedy Pamphilus, Gliscerium et Birria thrusts the courtly lover Pamphilus into parody and Christian mud. … Read the post Pamphilus, Gliscerium et Birria shows courtly lover’s folly
The 13th-century Latin comedy De uxore cerdonis mixes conventional beauty rhetoric and earthly violent realism in depicting a workman’s wife. … Read the post De uxore cerdonis depicts beautiful & violent medieval woman
The medieval Latin comedy Baucis et Traso indicates you can’t turn a whore into a virgin. It anticipated the rap claim “can’t turn a ho into a housewife.” … Read the post Baucis et Traso: can’t make a whore into a virgin
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