Women Making Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century

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

Kim Solga (Author)

9781009073486, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 October 2024

80 pages
23 x 15.1 x 0.5 cm, 0.136 kg

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.

1. Introduction: Women Making Shakespeare Now
2. Indigenous Creators
3. Intersectional Shakespeares
4. Institutional Change
5. The Way Forward
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Subject Areas: Theatre studies [AN]