A.E. Haigh (1898) in The Attic theatre p. 363-368. wrote:-
The Attic Theatre: A Description of the Stage and Theatre of the Athenians, and of the Dramatic Arthur Elam Haigh - Internet Archive
"And the old Attic comedy was pervaded by a coarseness which makes it utterly unfit for boys and women."
The Dramatic Festivals of Athens (2nd Edition 1968 Revised by J. Gould and D. M. Lewis): Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge - Internet Archive - Chapter VI The Audience pp 268-85.
[Discusses the evidence for women & children's attendance at the theatre in Ancient Athens]
S. Goldhill, ' Representing Democracy: Women at the Great Dionysia ', in R. Osborne and S. Hornblower (edd.), Ritual, Finance, Politics: Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis (Oxford, 1994), Chapter 21: pp. 347-69
Kitto repeats this in his book on p.233 in The Greeks - Internet Archive
"And the old Attic comedy was pervaded by a coarseness which makes it utterly unfit for boys and women."
Plato, Laws, Book 2, section 658d says that educated women preferred tragedies to comedies.
Plato, Gorgias, section 502d
Socrates:
Then it must be a rhetorical public speaking or do you not think that the poets use rhetoric in the theaters?
Callicles:
Yes, I do.
Socrates:
So now we have found a kind of rhetoric addressed to such a public as is compounded of children and women and men, and slaves as well as free; an art that we do not quite approve of, since we call it a flattering one.
Aristophanes says in Thesmophoriazusae. Line 1228 where in the exodus to the play the Chorus Leader implies "like good honest women, we each go straight to our own home after the play."
Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, line 1226-
Leader of the Chorus:
Go your way! and a pleasant journey to you! But our sports have lasted long enough; it is time for each of us to be off home; and may the two goddesses reward us for our labours!
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A.E. Haigh (1898) in The Attic theatre p. 363-368. wrote:-
The Attic Theatre: A Description of the Stage and Theatre of the Athenians, and of the Dramatic Arthur Elam Haigh - Internet Archive
"And the old Attic comedy was pervaded by a coarseness which makes it utterly unfit for boys and women."
The Dramatic Festivals of Athens (2nd Edition 1968 Revised by J. Gould and D. M. Lewis): Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge - Internet Archive - Chapter VI The Audience pp 268-85.The Attic Theatre: A Description of the Stage and Theatre of the Athenians, and of the Dramatic Arthur Elam Haigh - Internet Archive
"And the old Attic comedy was pervaded by a coarseness which makes it utterly unfit for boys and women."
[Discusses the evidence for women & children's attendance at the theatre in Ancient Athens]
S. Goldhill, ' Representing Democracy: Women at the Great Dionysia ', in R. Osborne and S. Hornblower (edd.), Ritual, Finance, Politics: Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis (Oxford, 1994), Chapter 21: pp. 347-69
Kitto repeats this in his book on p.233 in The Greeks - Internet Archive
"And the old Attic comedy was pervaded by a coarseness which makes it utterly unfit for boys and women."
Plato, Laws, Book 2, section 658d says that educated women preferred tragedies to comedies.
Plato, Gorgias, section 502d
Socrates:
Then it must be a rhetorical public speaking or do you not think that the poets use rhetoric in the theaters?
Callicles:
Yes, I do.
So now we have found a kind of rhetoric addressed to such a public as is compounded of children and women and men, and slaves as well as free; an art that we do not quite approve of, since we call it a flattering one.
Aristophanes says in Thesmophoriazusae. Line 1228 where in the exodus to the play the Chorus Leader implies "like good honest women, we each go straight to our own home after the play."
Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, line 1226-
Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, line 1226-
Leader of the Chorus:
Go your way! and a pleasant journey to you! But our sports have lasted long enough; it is time for each of us to be off home; and may the two goddesses reward us for our labours!
The Context of Ancient Drama (1995) Eric Csapo and William Slater - Internet Archive
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Chapter IVB - The Audience pp. 286-90
IVBi - The Athenian Audience in the Fifth and Fourth century
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2. Women and children in the audience pp. 263-5
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