Women in Greek Theatre

 

Q.  How were woman viewed in Greek Theatre?

• • Women seen but were not heard
  • Weren’t seen as that high of importance
  • Performances written by men, seen by men and performed by men
  • Women were an “underclass”
  • However In the stories such as Antigone women would have extreme power
  • Important in the sense that they created children
  • For Athenian unless you were white and over 30 or were of high class then you didn’t have a voice. This was the same way in how women were always perceived.
  • Theatre made men think about what they were doing to women by treating them as if they didn’t hold the equal qualities as everybody else

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