ABSTRACT
This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s play, Emilia.
Critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences, this innovative and ground-breaking show is a speculative history, an imaginative (re)telling of the life of English Renaissance poet Aemilia Bassano Lanyer. This book features essays by theatre practitioners, activists, and scholars and informed by intersectional feminist, critical race, queer, and postcolonial analyses will enable students and their teachers across secondary school and higher education to consider the play’s major themes from a wide variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives. This volume explores the current events and cultural contexts that informed the writing and performing of Emilia between 2017 and 2019, various aspects of the professional London productions, critical and audience responses, and best practices for teaching the play to university and secondary school students. It includes a foreword by Emilia playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre, arts activism, feminist literature, and theory.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|64 pages
Current events and cultural contexts
part Section II|67 pages
Emilia in practice
chapter 6|9 pages
'There's a woman on the stage!'
part Section III|45 pages
Critics and audiences respond
chapter 12|12 pages
'There's only so much work our imaginations can do'
part Section IV|29 pages
Teaching Emilia