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Ramie Targoff on Shakespeare's Sisters
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Ramie Targoff on Shakespeare's Sisters

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Ramie Targoff explores the lives and works of Mary Sidney, Aemelia Lanyer, Anne Clifford, and Elizabeth Cary in her new book, Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance.

How the Commedia Dell'Arte's Actresses Changed the Shakespearean Stage
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How the Commedia Dell'Arte's Actresses Changed the Shakespearean Stage

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English women didn’t act on London’s professional stages until the 1660s. But Pamela Allen Brown argues that despite this, star actresses from Italy altered both plays and playing in a process that began in the 1570s, when commedia dell’arte troupes first set foot in London.

Molly Yarn on Shakespeare's 'Lady Editors'
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Molly Yarn on Shakespeare's 'Lady Editors'

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Over the centuries there have been hundreds of editions of Shakespeare’s plays: Small, inexpensive schoolbook copies of individual plays, massive, leatherbound editions of the complete works, and everything in between. At some point, every one of those…

Naomi Miller on Mary Sidney and Imperfect Alchemist
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Naomi Miller on Mary Sidney and Imperfect Alchemist

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Naomi Miller’s novel Imperfect Alchemist is about one of early modern England’s most significant literary figures: poet, playwright, translator, and scientist Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke.

Women Performers in Shakespeare's Time, with Clare McManus
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Women Performers in Shakespeare's Time, with Clare McManus

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Think there were no women onstage in Shakespeare’s time? Think again. Scholar Clare McManus tells us where and how women performed in early modern Europe: emerging from mechanical seashells in elaborate court masques, dancing across tightropes, and on the stages of the European Continent.

Elizabeth Norton on The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women
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Elizabeth Norton on The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women

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What was everyday life like for women throughout Tudor society? Elizabeth Norton’s social history The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women introduces us not only to the restrictions, but also to some of the surprising freedoms.