Women Making Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century

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.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Women Making Shakespeare Now; 2. Indigenous Creators; 3. Intersectional Shakespeares; 4. Institutional Change; 5. The Way Forward; References.

Product details

• Authors: Kim Solga, Kim (Western University) Solga, Solga Kim
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2024
• EAN: 9781009500883
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0950088-3
• No. of pages: 80
• Series: Elements in Women Theatre Makers
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Theatre Studies, Gender studies: women and girls, Theatre direction and production, Social discrimination and social justice, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies, theatre studies; performance studies