VIRTUAL IAS Festival - Transgender Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

‘Transgender Shakespeare and His Contemporaries’ features talks on transgender interpretations and adaptations of Shakespeare and contemporary early modern writers, and creative responses to how trans actors and writers can use these texts in modern practice.

Participants:

Chair:

Dr Ezra Horbury, British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University College London

Speakers:

• Prof Kate Chedgzoy (Professor of Renaissance Literature, Newcastle University) – ‘Introduction’
• Dr Colby Gordon (Assistant Professor of English, Bryn Mawr College) – ‘Pricked Out’
• Dr Andy Kesson (Reader in Renaissance Literature, University of Roehampton) and Emma Frankland (theatre maker and performer) – 'Theatre History Is Theatre Now: Restaging Shakespeare’s Trans Contemporaries’
• Robin Craig (Ph.D student, University of Roehampton and Shakespeare’s Globe) – “Poor Old Will”: Shakespeare in Performance and the Bad Trans Object'.