by Jinny Webber | Nov 1, 2019 | Shakespeare and Fiction |
THE NORNS As the three witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth await the arrival of Macbeth and Banquo (Act I, scene 3), they chant: Posters of the sea and land, The weird sisters, hand in hand, Thus do go about, about: Thrice to thine and thrice to mine And thrice again, to...
by Jinny Webber | Oct 3, 2019 | Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
Ibsen’s play The Doll’s House ends with Nora Helmer closing the door of her house, leaving Torvald and her children behind: the slam heard round the world. It’s unambiguous; she’s out of there. [For the German premier, however, Ibsen was forced to write an alternative...
by Jinny Webber | Jul 26, 2019 | Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
The fashionable Englishman is “the ape of all nation’s superfluities, the continual Masquer of outlandish habiliments.” Thomas Nashe, Summer’s Last Will and Testament, quoted by Jane Ashelford, Dress in the Age of Elizabeth I, 1988 Elizabethan loved costumes....
by Jinny Webber | Jul 6, 2019 | Sex and Gender in, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
As anyone who scrolls through these posts can see, I’ve covered pretty much all the central issues of sex and gender in Shakespeare’s England, from boy actors and stage practice to cross-dressing and homosexuality to women’s literacy and sex by deception, or in other...
by Jinny Webber | Apr 27, 2019 | Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
Basically, “Sex by Deception” describes the bedtrick plots of Shakespeare’s plays Measure for Measure and All’s Well That Ends Well. To preserve the chastity of Isabella, the novitiate in Measure for Measure, a substitute sleeps with Angelo—his jilted fiancé Mariana....
