Notelets of Filth

A Companion Reader to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's Emilia
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-49829-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 398 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kressly, Laura

Patient, Aida

Williams, Kimberly A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Boxes

List of Contributors

Foreword

Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

Introduction

Laura Kressly, Aida Patient, and Kimberly A. Williams



Section I: Current Events and Cultural Contexts

Chapter 1 Women ‘think "round it"’! Writing and Publication in Emilia

Jennifer Young

Chapter 2 ‘Burn the Whole F*cking House Down!’: Black Feminist Lessons for Joyful Rage

Kimberly A. Williams

Chapter 3 Frenzy’s Weaponry: The Mythic Dimension of Emilia

David Bullen

Chapter 4 "This is My Gaff": Safe Spaces, Cultural Property, and Shakespeare

Peter Kirwan

Chapter 5 Towards Emilia: Black and South Asian Women in the Performance of Shakespeare

Sita Thomas







Section II: Emilia in Practice

Chapter 6 ‘There’s a Woman on the Stage!’: Emilia and the Politics of Bodies in Space in Shakespeare's Globe

Sara Reimers

Chapter 7 Embodying Emilia: A Conversation About Movement Creation

Christina Fulcher and Anna Morrissey, with Laura Kressly

Chapter 8 History, Her Story, or Our Story? Navigating the Tensions of Historically-Responsive Storytelling in Emilia

Eleanor Chadwick

Chapter 9 ‘For Eve. For Every Eve.’ An Intersectional Feminist Investigation of Men’s Violence Against Women in Emilia

Erica Navickas

Chapter 10 We are Emilia: Emilia as Witness, Witnessing Emilia

Catherine Quirk

Chapter 11 #IAmEmilia: When Marketing Creates a Movement

Gemma Kate Allred



Section III: Critics and Audiences Respond

Chapter 12 ‘There’s Only So Much Work Our Imaginations Can Do’: Emilia and London’s Privileged Theatre Critics

Laura Kressly

Chapter 13 #EmiliaFamilia: Representation Matters

Heather Marshall

Chapter 14 The #EmiliaFamilia: Feminist Fandom on Twitter

Emma Bentley

Chapter 15 Feeling Collectives: Emotions, Feminist Solidarity, and Difference in Emilia

Isabel Stuart





Section IV: Teaching Emilia

Chapter 16 Teaching Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s Emilia in a University Classroom

Aida Patient

Chapter 17 On Teaching Emilia as Intersectional Feminist Praxis

Kimberly A. Williams

Chapter 18 ‘What’s past is prologue’: Teaching Women, Race, and Emilia in the Twenty-first Century

Rebecca Steinberger

Chapter 19 Opening Up New Worlds: Emilia at a London Girls’ School

Kathryn Martin

Appendix A: A Brief Chronology of the Life and Times of Aemilia Bassano Lanyer

Aida Patient

Appendix B: Biographies of Historical Figures in Emilia

Janet Bartholomew

Appendix C: Nationality, Racial and Education Demographics of Emilia Critics

Laura Kressly

Appendix D: Semester Research Project for an Introductory Women’s and Gender Studies Course

Kimberly A. Williams

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Kressly (she/her) is a theatre critic, dramaturg, and director. She is co-founder of the Network of Independent Critics. She is currently working on her PhD at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she is also a visiting lecturer.

Aida Patient (she/her) teaches women’s writing in the Department of English, Languages, and Cultures at Mount Royal University in Canada.

Kimberly A. Williams (she/her) is a teacher, scholar, and activist. She directs the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Mount Royal University in Canada.