by Jinny Webber | Jan 14, 2019 | Boy actors on Shakespeare's stage, Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England, Shakespeare and Film |
Isaac Butler’s review, All Is True Is a Shakespeare Biopic for the #MeToo Generation, is subtitled “Kenneth Branagh’s new movie is part fact, part fan fiction.” https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/all-is-true-shakespeare-movie-accuracy-kenneth-branagh-hamnet.html...
by Jinny Webber | Oct 31, 2018 | Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
The bedtrick: sex with a partner who pretends to be someone else. [Introduction, Wendy Doniger, The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade, University of Chicago, 2000.] Two of Shakespeare’s plays, All’s Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure, make use of the plot...
by Jinny Webber | Jul 15, 2018 | Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
“Bedtrick: sex with a partner who pretends to be someone else.” [Introduction, Wendy Doniger, The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade, University of Chicago, 2000.] Two of Shakespeare’s plays, Measure for Measure and All’s Well That Ends Well, make use of the plot...
by Jinny Webber | Jul 13, 2018 | Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
My novel Bedtrick deals with marriage, both in Shakespeare’s plays and in the lives of the characters. An enlightening book on the subject is Daniel Swift’s Shakespeare’s Common Prayers, particularly the two chapters on the solemnization of matrimony. Swift argues...
by Jinny Webber | May 14, 2018 | Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
Johnny held out a satchel, showing me the clothes that near overflowed it: boots and hose, breeches, jerkin and shirt. Holding up a linen band, Johnny smiled. “I’m to tell you to be sure to wrap it tight. And for Mag to cut your hair.” Chapter II, The Secret Player...
