Monday, February 26, 2018

There's A Lot More Going On In Gender-'Flipping' Shakespeare Than You Might Think

Critic and scholar Hailey Bachrach on having, for instance, Don John in Much Ado About Nothing played by a woman: "We must think about these things beyond just the blanket assumption that any opportunity for women is narratively good – especially in a play whose embedded gender politics make 'gender blindness' more or less impossible."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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