Perhaps he intended to denigrate Shakespeare as a jack-of-all-trades player-turned-playwright who should have stuck to acting.
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Jack Hibberd has died at age 84. As part of Australian theatre’s New Wave he was a crucial playwright in exploring how we saw ourselves as Australians.
Only a handful of plays written by women in the early modern period have survived. But the accounts of Alice Mustian’s raunchy stage show shed light on a surprising playwright and impresario.
Miller told me that he was writing at the edge of a cliff. There was a reason the Bible began with the story of Cain and Abel, brother killing brother.
Theatre censorship laws stifled Black playwrights for more than 200 years – here’s what we found in the archive.
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Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Early Modern English Literature, University of Bristol
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Emeritus Professor, School of Art, Media and American Studies, University of East Anglia
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Assistant Professor of English, University of Toronto
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Professor of American History, University of Leeds; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Lecturer in Performing Arts, Adelaide University
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Teaching Fellow in the Department of English Studies, Durham University
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Professor of Renaissance Literature and Textual Studies, University of Leeds
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Professor of English, Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies, University of Sussex