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'Some exquisitely-dressed stage favourite': Shakespeare and the suffragettes

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English Graduate Conference 2012
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In this talk, Sophie Duncan examines suffragists' interactions with Shakespeare and his works, as performers, directors, consumers and critics.
Suffragist readings of Shakespeare variously cite Shakespeare's feminism as a source of authority, justifying their right to vote, and attack Shakespeare's patriarchal impulses in a manner that anticipates second-wave feminist, cultural materialist readings of the plays by half a century.

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English Graduate Conference 2012
People
Sophie Duncan
Keywords
political context
Victorian
shakespeare
suffragettes
feminism
Shakespearean actresses
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 17/07/2012
Duration: 00:23:17

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