Date of Completion
Spring 5-6-2012
Thesis Advisor(s)
Gina Barreca; Roger Travis; William Snyder; Jonathan Hufstader
Disciplines
Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity | Classical Literature and Philology | Comparative Literature | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | History
Abstract
"Women and War: Power Play from Lysistrata to the Present" is a three-fold project intent on analyzing the role of women in war and comedy. The intentions are: demonstrating how Aristophanes’ famed comedy, Lysistrata, was a subversive text for its time, as it presented a challenge to men’s authority that otherwise remained unchallenged, creating a modernized retelling of Lysistrata, which she holds would still be a subversive text, because men still have nearly absolute authority in war, and finally, analyzing the comedic nature of Lysistrata in a modern text; namely, why women’s choices constitute a comedy, and the comedic potential of a modernized version of Lysistrata.
Recommended Citation
Luo, Shuyang Cynthia, "Women and War: Power Play from Lysistrata to the Present" (2012). Honors Scholar Theses. 262.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/srhonors_theses/262