
Fill in the Blanks Hamlet, Thy Name is Woman!Online version Watch the talk and complete the text by Jessica Rivas Murillo 1 imposter idolizes equality binary 17th syndrome I mean , if you were to present me with a character who their father , has a complicated relationship with their mother , needs to talk through every problem , struggles with , and takes the bulk of a three and a half hour play to do one thing , I'd guess you were talking about a woman . But in searching for a real answer to that implied question , why does it matter now to see Hamlet played by a woman as a woman ? We first have to go back a bit in time . In Shakespeare's England , the very concept of between the sexes would have been unthinkable to most people . England at the dawn of the century is a world that exists on the . You're noble or you're common . You're Protestant or you're Catholic . You're a man or you're a woman . 2 beaten 40 chastised throughout 1604 complexity monarch And in Shakespeare's England , a woman cannot vote in an election . Her income , her possessions , her property are all legally her husband's . She can be or with impunity by her husband as long as he does not actually kill her . And it almost goes without saying , she cannot perform on stage . So in a world in which no two men are born equal , how could we possibly conceive that a woman might possess the intelligence or of thought equal to that of a man ? Yet , the latter half of the century , a woman occupied the throne of England . By the time she died in , Elizabeth I had ruled for over years . And it is in this world , ruled by a powerful and rhetorically skilled female , that young William Shakespeare begins to write plays . 3 sexuality playwright reproductive man dynamics intersectionality sex splaining dummy spirited property feminism theatre Elizabethan fearless resolute shrew high American archetype And the beautiful thing about the is that it is for everyone . Everybody goes to the theatre . Young , old , rich , poor , noble , common , men and women . And young Will Shakespeare is no . He knows that half his audience will be comprised of the fairer . And so , as he matures as a , he begins not only to write some of the most , , - and intelligent heroines in the Western canon , but to continually blur the lines between the masculine and the feminine , thereby creating characters , both male and female , that refuse to be defined by their . They're no longer a king , a soldier , a lover , a . They are wonderfully , infuriatingly , bafflingly , undeniably human . Fast forward 400 years . Multiple waves of have washed over us . Voting rights , rights , rights , female , family , workplace inequality , sexual harassment , , - , the Bechtel test , the female gaze . Me too . And yet , if life worked like the modern theatre , four out of five things you would ever heard would have been spoken by a man . 4 V leadership expectations prologue gendered Henry societal entertainment We tell ourselves that we live in a modern world , and we do , and we don't . Because we still live in a world in which our language , our emotions , our professions , and our are . Despite all our strides forward , women are still grossly underrepresented in across business , technology , politics , arts , and . We might be able to conceive that a woman could possess the intelligence or complexity of thought equal to that of a man , but our reality doesn't yet reflect that thinking . So , how do we move from conception to reality ? We have to be able to imagine it , and there is no better place to exercise our imagination than in the theatre . In the to , Shakespeare implores his audience , let us ciphers to this great a comp on your imaginary forces' work , for it is your thoughts that now must deck our kings . 5 anxiety aggressor harassment privacy victim So , why does it matter now to see Hamlet played by a woman as a woman ? It matters for the generation before me , who for most of their formative years , a woman could not sit on a jury , apply for a credit card in her own name , expect equal pay for equal work , get an Ivy League education , or report sexual in the workplace . So , what might it mean to them to imagine Hamlet as a woman , to watch her embark on vigilante justice , share an alma mater with Martin Luther , and be both the and the ? It matters for the generation after me , who for most of their formative years , have lived in a world where their is virtually non - existent , rates of depression and have skyrockete d

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Hamlet, Thy Name is Woman!Online version

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by Jessica Rivas Murillo

imposter idolizes equality binary 17th syndrome

I mean , if you were to present me with a character who their father , has a complicated relationship with their mother , needs to talk through every problem , struggles with , and takes the bulk of a three and a half hour play to do one thing , I'd guess you were talking about a woman .
But in searching for a real answer to that implied question , why does it matter now to see Hamlet played by a woman as a woman ? We first have to go back a bit in time . In Shakespeare's England , the very concept of between the sexes would have been unthinkable to most people . England at the dawn of the century is a world that exists on the . You're noble or you're common . You're Protestant or you're Catholic . You're a man or you're a woman .

beaten 40 chastised throughout 1604 complexity monarch

And in Shakespeare's England , a woman cannot vote in an election . Her income , her possessions , her property are all legally her husband's . She can be or with impunity by her husband as long as he does not actually kill her . And it almost goes without saying , she cannot perform on stage .
So in a world in which no two men are born equal , how could we possibly conceive that a woman might possess the intelligence or of thought equal to that of a man ? Yet , the latter half of the century , a woman occupied the throne of England . By the time she died in , Elizabeth I had ruled for over years . And it is in this world , ruled by a powerful and rhetorically skilled female , that young William Shakespeare begins to write plays .

sexuality playwright reproductive man dynamics intersectionality sex splaining dummy spirited property feminism theatre Elizabethan fearless resolute shrew high American archetype

And the beautiful thing about the is that it is for everyone . Everybody goes to the theatre . Young , old , rich , poor , noble , common , men and women . And young Will Shakespeare is no . He knows that half his audience will be comprised of the fairer .
And so , as he matures as a , he begins not only to write some of the most , , - and intelligent heroines in the Western canon , but to continually blur the lines between the masculine and the feminine , thereby creating characters , both male and female , that refuse to be defined by their . They're no longer a king , a soldier , a lover , a . They are wonderfully , infuriatingly , bafflingly , undeniably human .
Fast forward 400 years . Multiple waves of have washed over us . Voting rights , rights , rights , female , family , workplace inequality , sexual harassment , , - , the Bechtel test , the female gaze . Me too . And yet , if life worked like the modern theatre , four out of five things you would ever heard would have been spoken by a man .

V leadership expectations prologue gendered Henry societal entertainment

We tell ourselves that we live in a modern world , and we do , and we don't . Because we still live in a world in which our language , our emotions , our professions , and our are . Despite all our strides forward , women are still grossly underrepresented in across business , technology , politics , arts , and . We might be able to conceive that a woman could possess the intelligence or complexity of thought equal to that of a man , but our reality doesn't yet reflect that thinking .
So , how do we move from conception to reality ? We have to be able to imagine it , and there is no better place to exercise our imagination than in the theatre . In the to , Shakespeare implores his audience , let us ciphers to this great a comp on your imaginary forces' work , for it is your thoughts that now must deck our kings .

anxiety aggressor harassment privacy victim

So , why does it matter now to see Hamlet played by a woman as a woman ? It matters for the generation before me , who for most of their formative years , a woman could not sit on a jury , apply for a credit card in her own name , expect equal pay for equal work , get an Ivy League education , or report sexual in the workplace . So , what might it mean to them to imagine Hamlet as a woman , to watch her embark on vigilante justice , share an alma mater with Martin Luther , and be both the and the ?
It matters for the generation after me , who for most of their formative years , have lived in a world where their is virtually non - existent , rates of depression and have skyrockete d

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