by Jinny Webber | Aug 16, 2021 | Gender fluidity, The Man-Woman |
Rare for a living person to be the subject of a play, but so Moll Frith was in The Roaring Girl, or Moll Cut-purse, Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s play of 1607-1611. By then she was legendary in London, sitting onstage at a performance of The Roaring Girl, and...
by Jinny Webber | Aug 11, 2021 | Uncategorized |
When Sander was a motherless girl named Kate Collins in the village of Saffron Walden, her Gran raised her and her younger brother Johnny in their earliest years. Though Kate hadn’t the patience to learn Gran’s healing skills, she thrived through her love and...
by Jinny Webber | Aug 11, 2021 | The Man-Woman |
Sander Cooke has three close women friends in Bedtrick, each rebellious in her own way. On a scale of scandal, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke is the least, Amelia Bassano Lanyer more so, and Moll Cutpurse, as Moll Frith was sometimes known, the most. Sander...
by Jinny Webber | Jul 27, 2021 | Uncategorized |
Bedtrick spans the years 1599-1603, a dramatic time in London. Sander Cooke’s personal challenges define the plot, but so too the tensions during that era in politics and theatre. One change that subtly reflects the times is the nature of clowning. What...
by Jinny Webber | Jul 26, 2021 | Shakespeare and Fiction |
This series of blog posts on Bedtrick should probably have begun with an announcement for the book itself. This link will take you to the publisher’ website: https://cuidono.com/Webber_Bedtrick.html From 1599 until her death in 1603, Queen Elizabeth’s rule...
