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VIRTUAL IAS Festival - Transgender Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
04 May 2021, 3:00 pmā4:30 pm
With Professor Kate Chedgzoy, Dr Colby Gordon, Dr Andy Kesson, Emma Frankland, Robin Craig and Dr Ezra Horbury (chair)
This event is free.
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Institute of Advanced Studies
āTransgender Shakespeare and His Contemporariesā features talks on transgender interpretations and adaptations of Shakespeare and contemporary early modern writers, and creative responses to how trans actors and writers can use these texts in modern practice.
Participants:
Chair:
Dr Ezra Horbury, British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University College London
Speakers:
- Prof Kate Chedgzoy (Professor of Renaissance Literature, Newcastle University) ā āIntroductionā
- Dr Colby Gordon (Assistant Professor of English, Bryn Mawr College) ā āPricked Outā
- Dr Andy Kesson (Reader in Renaissance Literature, University of Roehampton) and Emma Frankland (theatre maker and performer) ā 'Theatre History Is Theatre Now: Restaging Shakespeareās Trans Contemporariesā
- Robin Craig (Ph.D student, University of Roehampton and Shakespeareās Globe) ā āPoor Old Willā: Shakespeare in Performance and the Bad Trans Object'.
This talk forms part of the IAS fifth anniversary festival on the theme of āAlternative Epistemologiesā.
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