Notelets of Filth
A Companion Reader to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's Emilia
Laura Kressly, Aida Patient, Kimberly A. Williams, Laura Kressly, Aida Patient, Kimberly A. Williams
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Notelets of Filth
A Companion Reader to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's Emilia
Laura Kressly, Aida Patient, Kimberly A. Williams, Laura Kressly, Aida Patient, Kimberly A. Williams
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This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's play, Emilia.
Critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences, this innovative and ground-breaking show is a speculative history, an imaginative (re)telling of the life of English Renaissance poet Aemilia Bassano Lanyer. This book features essays by theatre practitioners, activists, and scholars and informed by intersectional feminist, critical race, queer, and postcolonial analyses will enable students and their teachers across secondary school and higher education to consider the play's major themes from a wide variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives. This volume explores the current events and cultural contexts that informed the writing and performing of Emilia between 2017 and 2019, various aspects of the professional London productions, critical and audience responses, and best practices for teaching the play to university and secondary school students. It includes a foreword by Emilia playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre, arts activism, feminist literature, and theory.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Boxes
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Section I Current Events and Cultural Contexts
- Section II Emilia in Practice
- Section III Critics and Audiences Respond
- Section IV Teaching Emilia
- Appendix A: A Brief Chronology of the Life and Times of Aemilia Bassano Lanyer
- Appendix B: Biographies of Historical Figures in Emilia
- Appendix C: Nationality, Racial, and Education Demographics of Emilia Critics
- Appendix D: Semester Research Project