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VIRTUAL IAS Festival - Transgender Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
04 May 2021, 3:00 pm鈥�4:30 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
鈥楾ransgender Shakespeare and His Contemporaries鈥� 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, 果冻影院
Speakers:
- Prof Kate Chedgzoy (Professor of Renaissance Literature, Newcastle University) 鈥� 鈥業ntroduction鈥�
- Dr Colby Gordon (Assistant Professor of English, Bryn Mawr College) 鈥� 鈥楶ricked Out鈥�
- Dr Andy Kesson (Reader in Renaissance Literature, University of Roehampton) and Emma Frankland (theatre maker and performer) 鈥� 'Theatre History Is Theatre Now: Restaging Shakespeare鈥檚 Trans Contemporaries鈥�
- Robin Craig (Ph.D student, University of Roehampton and Shakespeare鈥檚 Globe) 鈥� 鈥淧oor Old Will鈥�: Shakespeare in Performance and the Bad Trans Object'.
This talk forms part of the IAS fifth anniversary festival on the theme of 鈥楢lternative Epistemologies鈥�.
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