About the Project
In 2014 the feminist writer Fiona Ritchie responded to a famous Austen quote from 1814 about how Shakespeare was “part of an Englishman’s constitution”.
Actually Ritchie said that in reality the bard was much more than that, he was in fact a significant part of an “Englishwoman’s constitution”! But rather than explain what that means, my play aims to invoke a questioning of his work as an extension on this discourse. And I propose a lot of questions at that:
Is it Shakespeare who created the characters? Or did the characters make him?
And how do they make and remake themselves now, extending beyond the ink laid down by the bard so long ago?
Visiting with Shakespeare’s women not only allows us to pry into the critically acclaimed and passionately interpreted work of their illusive author, but more importantly into the minds and bodies of the iconic female characters and their famous soliloquies we all know and revere.
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