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Women Making Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century

Kim Solga author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:17th Oct '24

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This Element discusses how are women artists from equity-owed, global majority communities making Shakespeare relevant and powerful today.

This Element examines why women makers from equity-owed communities (Indigenous, of colour, Deaf, disabled, trans and non-binary communities among others) choose to work with Shakespeare and his contemporaries at a moment in time when theatres around the world are striving toward equity, inclusion, diversity, and decolonization.This Element examines why women makers from equity-owed communities (Indigenous, of colour, Deaf, disabled, trans and non-binary communities among others) choose to work with Shakespeare and his contemporaries at a moment in time when theatres around the world are striving toward equity, inclusion, diversity, and decolonization. It details and explores these creators' processes to learn from them about how to transform plays we know all too well as patriarchy-affirming, ableist, and often racist into vehicles for community storytelling and models for radically inclusive and difference-centred ways of making.

ISBN: 9781009073486

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 4mm

Weight: 133g

80 pages