But Shakespeare’s flair for incorporating social commentary into his plays led to the advent of a string of deliciously defiant female characters, whose actions would’ve been just as inspiring ...

Dame Harriet Walter has written new parts for 30 of Shakespeare’s female characters who she claims were silenced by the “patriarchy”. The Killing Eve actress, known for her portrayals of ...

For this year's production of Twelfth Night, or What You Will, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival has set the play in the Roaring Twenties. Its three female characters represent distinctly ...

Local Shakespeare devotees have cause to ... free-spirited 1920s and has changed most of the principal characters from male to female. The play is filled with music and dance to help tell the ...

So, in spite of the raging sexism of his society, Shakespeare creates both male and female characters that defy the stereotypes. The aggressive women of Macbeth have huge power in persuading a ...

Even though "Enter the Body" is based on the tragic female characters brought to life by William Shakespeare hundreds of years ago, their stories can be viewed with fresh perspectives and applied ...

The national series of events for school children celebrates the playwright, which organisers said was this year's inspired by Shakespeare's iconic female characters. On Monday, pupils from Wood ...

Achieving gender equality in Shakespeare is hard due to the lack of female characters and 'roles available' for women, the first woman to be appointed artistic director at the Royal Shakespeare ...

Her existential crisis leads her to confront over a dozen of Shakespeare’s other female characters. A hit at the Winnipeg and Edmonton Fringe festivals in 2019, the play went on a four-city ...