Emilia

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Emilia

Plays, playscripts Feminism and feminist theory Gender studies: women and girls

Author: Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

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Collection: Modern Plays

Language: English

Published by: Oberon Books

Published on: 10th August 2018

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 96 pages

ISBN: 9781786824820


Winner of the Noel Coward Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy at the 2020 Olivier Awards

In 1611 Emilia Bassano wrote a volume of radical, feminist and subversive poetry. It was one of the first published collections of poetry written by a woman in England. The little we know of Emilia Bassano is restricted to the possibility that she may have been the "Dark Lady" of Shakespeare's Sonnets – and the rest of HerStory has been erased by History.

Morgan has taken what we know of Bassano, and her poetry, to create this lively, witty play.

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