‘Hamnet,’ focussed on Shakespeare’s wife Agnes as a healer, brings forward stronger readings of a character who’s been at the centre of feminist criticism and western pop culture: Ophelia in Hamlet.
- Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, McGill University
While our culture is very different from Shakespeare’s London, his plays — and those by others — still carry the potential to bring people together and help us think deeply about our shared experience.
Shakespeare was a social entrepreneur and entertainer in a world riven by crises, and much can be learned from bringing him into conversation with policy today.
Shakespeare understood that our fate depends on fostering the humility and empathy that dethrones money and transforms it into something we use to advance the common good.
Plague ravaged England repeatedly during Shakespeare’s lifetime. The playwright translated the experience of sickness and restoration in many ways on the stage.
With the support of universities, PhD graduates working beyond the academy could bring their knowhow into PhD seminars or classrooms to help current students expand their career horizons.
Actors and theatre scholars seek to understand how ‘The Tempest’ could have been used by both European colonialists and also by advocates of resistance.
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