by Jinny Webber | Feb 16, 2024 | Uncategorized |
My connection to Shakespeare’s England remains strong, but for now the focus has shifted to the Bronze Age. Serpent Visions, a Novel of Teiresias brings to life the myth of that gender-changing seer in pre-Homeric Greece. During this pre-literate era, epics were...
by Jinny Webber | Feb 20, 2023 | Sex and Gender in |
Time for a transition from posts related to Shakespeare’s England to ancient Greece before the Trojan war. Like Shakespeare who leaned on the Roman poet Ovid, I use his Metamorphoses as a springboard. Related blogs can be found on my new site, Gender and Greek Myth,...
by Jinny Webber | Aug 4, 2022 | Uncategorized |
Bedtrick is very much alive: you or your local bookstore can order it from http://cuidono.com/Webber_Bedtrick.html Until now this blog has focused on Shakespeare’s era. His favorite source for stories and metaphors was the Metamorphoses of the Roman poet Ovid, a...
by Jinny Webber | Jun 4, 2022 | Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
The final scene of Bedtrick takes place on a summer’s day on the grand country estate Wilton House. On its broad terrace Shakespeare’s company presents his woodland comedy As You Like It for a noble company, including newly crowned King James I. The preceding years...
by Jinny Webber | Feb 17, 2022 | Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
Through history, women have successfully passed as male: no hormones, no surgery, only perhaps herbs to end or slow menstrual periods. During the American Civil War, some 200 soldiers who died in battle or otherwise later identified were female. Who can blame them?...
