Brutus and Other Heroines: Playing Shakespeare's Roles for Women by Harriet Walter

Brutus and Other Heroines: Playing Shakespeare's Roles for Women

Harriet Walter

224 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging reflective slow-paced
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Why didn't Shakespeare write more roles for mature women? For Harriet Walter, the solution was to ignore the dictates of centuries of tradition, and to begin playing the mature male characters. An exploration of the Shakespearean canon through the...

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