by Jinny Webber | Sep 21, 2021 | Boy actors on Shakespeare's stage |
The third of Sander Cooke’s important female friends is Amelia Bassano Lanyer (Her name is variously spelled: Amelia, Emilia, or Æmelia and Lanyer or Lanier.) The Bassano family were musicians in the court of Henry VIII, natives of Venice and conversos, that is,...
by Jinny Webber | Aug 22, 2021 | Boy actors on Shakespeare's stage, Women Writers in Shakespeare's Era |
Early in Bedtrick when faced with a dilemma, Sander seeks out her old friend Mary Sidney Herbert, the Countess of Pembroke. Unlikely as a friendship between an actor and a noble woman may seem, their connection is long-standing. The Countess has a special interest in...
by Jinny Webber | Aug 17, 2021 | Shakespeare and Fiction |
Review by Leslie Carroll, who writes under the pen name Juliet Grey “O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all hooping!” So exclaims Celia to her banished cousin Rosalind in Shakespeare’s AS YOU LIKE IT,...
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...
