by Jinny Webber | Nov 20, 2019 | Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
This is Ambassador Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anou, who led a Moorish delegation to Queen Elizabeth in 1600 to make an alliance against their common enemy, Spain. Although they failed to raise a fleet between them, he and his embassy remained in London...
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...
