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Women in Shakespeare is a topic within the especially general discussion of Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works. Main characters such as Dark Lady of the sonnets have elicited a substantial amount of criticism, which received added impetus during the second-wave feminism of the 1960s.
Gayle Greene (born 1943) is an American literary critic, writer, editor, and professor emerita at Scripps College, Claremont, California. [1] She is the author of six books, including the biography The Woman Who Knew Too Much and the memoir Insomniac.
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Times Literary Supplement. Dec. 21 & 28, 2012, pp. 17–19. Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). Winner of the 2018 Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Prize for best book in Tudor and Stuart drama. [13] Since 1997 Masten has been a co-editor of the scholarly journal Renaissance Drama ...
Emma Josephine Smith (born 15 May 1970) [1] is an English literary scholar and academic whose research focuses on early modern drama, particularly William Shakespeare, and the history of the book. She has been a Tutorial Fellow in English at Hertford College, Oxford since 1997 and Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford ...
Shakespeare Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1950 by the Shakespeare Association of America. It is now under the auspices of the Folger Shakespeare Library . Along with book and performance criticism, Shakespeare Quarterly incorporates scholarly research and essays on Shakespeare and the age in which he worked ...
Thirty-two million people attend music festivals every year in the U.S. Over half (51 percent) of those attendees are women. But on stage, the demographics are very different. Coachella’s 2016 lineup included 168 male artists and just 60 female artists — a figure that includes both all-female and mixed-gender acts.
Cross-gender acting often interacts with complex cultural ideas about gender. It has a diverse history across many cultures, including English Renaissance theatre, French theatre, Japanese theatre, Indian theatres, and Ethiopian theatre. In many contexts, such as English and Indian theatres, cross-gender acting is linked to the oppression of women.