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Tag Archives: women
A statue for Aphra Behn in Canterbury
The city of Canterbury has many literary connections. It’s the end-point for Chaucer’s pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales, the setting for the murder of Thomas a Becket as dramatized by TS Eliot in Murder in the Cathedral, and the birthplace … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World
Tagged Alexandra Gibreath, Aphra Behn, Canterbury, Canterbury Commemoration Society, Christopher Marlowe, Geoffrey Chaucer, statue, women
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Shakespeare, suffrage, and Stratford-upon-Avon
This week, 8-13 March, International Women’s Week has been celebrated around the world with an examination of the achievements of women and progress towards gender equality. Amanda Vickery’s three-part television series Suffragettes Forever! has documented the history of the struggle … Continue reading
Thomas Heywood’s women
About a week ago I wrote about the extraordinary playwright, poet, prose writer and actor Thomas Heywood whose work is being investigated at the Shakespeare Institute’s Heywood Marathon. This reaches its conclusion on Saturday with Love’s Mistress, Amphrisa, the forsaken shepherdess, … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Elizabeth 1, Gynaikeion, Imelda Staunton, muses, mythology, The Fair Maid of the West, Thomas Heywood, witchcraft, women
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Images of Shakespeare’s heroines
While researching a recent post I spotted a note in the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald saying that in 1945 Queen Mary donated a copy of The Graphic Gallery of Shakespeare’s Heroines to the SMT (now RSC). This might not sound extraordinary, unless you … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Bradfield, Cleopatra, Cressida, Ellen Terry, Graphic Gallery, Imogen, paintings, Queen Mary, Shakespeare's Heroines, St Andrew's College, women
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Shakespeare’s sisters
We’re used to the idea that in the early modern period women were seen as intellectually inferior to men. Denied the educational opportunities afforded to their brothers, girls learned only the rudiments of reading and writing. And with their lives … Continue reading
The Taming of the Shrew and Measure for Measure: two of a kind?
The Royal Shakespeare Company is currently offering audiences the chance to see both The Taming of the Shrew and Measure for Measure back to back. These plays are unlikely bedfellows, but they have in fact a lot in common. Both … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Carol Rutter, disguise, justice, Measure for Measure, prison, punishment, Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, women
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Michael Sheen’s Hamlet: driving out the feminine side
For centuries, critics have noted Hamlet’s effeminacy: his inability to act decisively, that description as a “delicate and tender prince”. In the eighteenth century the great actor David Garrick was criticised for “giving a kind of feminine sorrow” to his … Continue reading
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Tagged feminine, Hamlet, Ian Rickson, madness, Michael Sheen, psychiatry, Richard Eyre, Shakespeare, Tony Howard, women, Young Vic
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Shakespeare and the first actresses
The National Portrait Gallery in London’s new exhibition celebrates the careers of the earliest English professional actresses. Entitled The First Actresses: Nell Gwynn to Sarah Siddons it neatly documents womens’ increasing respectability in the world of the theatre. In Shakespeare’s … Continue reading
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Tagged actresses, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like it, Cleopatra, exhibition, Juliet, National Portrait Gallery, Rosalind, Shakespeare, women
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