About the project…

“Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond” is the first sustained use of Practice as Research to analyze the performance of gender in Shakespearean drama as it is affected by early modern women’s performance.

Uniting scholars, actors and theatre practitioners, we investigate the effects of women’s performance on the skills, techniques and technologies of the performance of femininity by both male and female players in canonical drama by Shakespeare and his English and European contemporaries.

Equally crucial to our work are investigations regarding traces of trans and queer identities on the early modern stage and the impacts of these new insights on contemporary casting and performance practices.

Find out more in an interview with project team members here and a short video about our work at the Stratford Festival here.

Core members of the project team:

Peter Cockett

Melinda Gough

Clare McManus

Lucy Munro