Are Our Souls Our Own? An Exploration of Shakespeare’s Women

Synopsis: Video recording from Zoom of a live events held with participants in California, New York and Ireland. Director Stephanie Courtney leads a discussion with a cast of all-female actors that prepared monologues from the canon to contribute to the talk. Specified topics include ''is there a difference between the historical women and the fictional women?'; ‘Do Shakespeare’s women have a right to ask for what is genuinely theirs without being labeled, denied, etc.?'; and ‘What constitutes justice for women in the Elizabethan hierarchy of the patriarch?'

Participants, with details of their respective monologues, include: Kimberleigh Aarn (Henry IV part I, Act 2 Scene 3), Linnea Barklund (Troilus and Cressida, Act 1 Scene 2), Kathleen S Dunn (King Lear, Act 2 Scene 4), Kaitlyn Tice (Richard III, Act 1 Scene 2), Andrus Nichols (The Merchant of Venice, Act 4 Scene 1), Melissa Lubina (As You Like It, Act 3 Scene 2) , Dawn Stern (Henry VI part II, Act 3 Scene 2), Linda Bisesti (King Lear, Act 1 Scene 4), Marissa Pitts (The Winter’s Tale, Act 3 Scene 2) and Aoibhéann McCann (Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 1).
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Video
Transmission details: 17 Jan 2021
Duration: 124 mins

This record has been viewed 193 times.

British Universities Film & Video Council