Stay at Home Shakespeare 2: Emma Whipday on the balcony in Romeo and Juliet

9 April, 2020

In: Schools, Series, Stay at Home Shakespeare

Tagged: Domesticity, Gender, Merchant Of Venice, Performance, Romeo And Juliet, Shakespeare, Theatre

Emma Whipday explores how the home was associated with the female body in Shakespeare’s England – and how this idea influences how Shakespeare stages women in windows in Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of Venice.

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Emma Whipday
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For more on these ideas, see:

Boose, Lynda E. The Father and the Bride in Shakespeare May 1982
325-347
Lena Cowen Orlin Women on Thresholds 1997
50-58
Emma Whipday Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies 2019
chapter 3