The recent import from the BBC 4, Shakespeare Uncovered, is a six-part series in which one well-known public face of the theatre each episode gives an in-depth, personal walk-through a selection from Shakespeare’s plays. Four examine a single play, the… Read More ›
Paulina is one of Shakespeare’s lesser known, but most vibrant and admirable mouthy women.
We all know which way the Avengers falls, but have you ever wondered whether Shakespeare passes the Bechdel test?
It’s splitting from the nave to the chops time!
Actually, I’d rather watch this collection of fine videos from the Talk Like Shakespeare Day website.
In Othello, it is Emilia, unfortunate wife of the villainous Iago, who delivers the woman’s equivalent of Shylock’s more famous “Has not a Jew eyes?” speech.
Such is the focus on the central couple that it is easy to forget that two husbands kill their wives in this play.
Kinda. David Tennant and Catherine Tate will reunite to perform Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (as Benedick and Beatrice, respectively) for a season at Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End.
The casual use of violence perpetrated on the female body in telling a story about a man’s experience will not be news to most people here, but it might be enlightening to look at it in the context of what is often considered to be one of the great works of humanist literature, one that still carries more cultural weight than possibly any other, and is often claimed to speak to all people, everywhere.
Orlando has just returned to Sydney after a time living in the UK, and this article is the response promised to this earlier Friday Hoyden. What Can a Feminist do with a Shrew? Shrew: ‘a woman given to railing or… Read More ›
Today you get a Friday Hoyden and an opera review all tied up into one!
Hoyden About Town 