Shakespeare's women rarely reach the end of the play alive. Whether by murder or by suicide, onstage or off, female actors in Shakespeare's works often find the

Serves both as a script for performance and as a text for high school and college theater and English classes. This self-contained script brings together differ

A study assessing the treatment of women in the plays of Shakespeare, his predecessors and his contemporaries.

Women of Will is a fierce and funny exploration of Shakespeare’s understanding of the feminine. Tina Packer, one of our foremost Shakespeare experts, shows th

Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the same degree of s