Academic warns of 'lack of consent' in Shakespeare scenes
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Actors playing characters from some of William Shakespeare’s most popular plays should be taught about sexual ethics, an academic has warned.
Hailey Bachrach, from the University of Roehampton, said scenes where male characters fail to ask females for consent could be ‘potentially triggering’ to modern actors and modern audiences.
It has been argued that neither Henry V or Richard III receive an actual ‘yes’ from Princess Katherine and Lady Anne respectively, while Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is drugged and therefore unable to consent to sex with Bottom.
Launching the Shakespeare and Consent project, https://partyyardlongmont.com Ms Bachrach said Shakespeare’s ‘glossing over’ of these issues could be problematic, especially as female characters are often smaller roles and therefore played by younger actors.
The aim of Ms Bachrach’s three-year project is to run workshops with performers to help highlight the issues around consent, rather than simply ignore it.
Hailey Bachrach (pictured), from the University of Roehampton, said scenes where male characters fail to ask females for consent could be ‘potentially triggering’ to modern actors and modern audiences
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In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titania is ‘appalled’ when she realises she had sex with Bottom while under the influence of mind-altering fairy drugs.
Pictured, game judi online Dench as Titania and Oliver Chris as Bottom
Isabella, the nun in Measure for poker online terbaru Measure, is not given an opportunity to respond to an offer for marriage before the play ends.
Pictured, Andrea Riseborough and Richard Dormer in Measure for Measure at the Theatre Royal, Bath
It has been argued that Henry V never receives an actual ‘yes’ from Princess Katherine in the play’s final scene.
Pictured, https://silenthill-revelation.com Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh in Henry V
Ms Bachrach said other writers, including Thomas Middleton and holic-music.com John Ford, used issues surrounding consent and rape as key plots, whereas Shakespeare chose not to dwell on sexual or marital consent.
Discussing scenes she viewed as ‘problematic’, Ms Bachrach said Richard III ‘woos’ Lady Anne without getting ‘an actual yes’, while the final scene of Henry V includes an encounter between the English king and Princess Katherine in which she says ‘everything but an actual “yes”.’
She also pointed out that Isabella, the nun in Measure for volker-koch.com Measure, is not given an opportunity to respond to an offer for marriage before the play ends.
While in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titania is ‘appalled’ when she realises she had sex with Bottom while under the influence of mind-altering fairy drugs.
Attempted rape and rape also feature in Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Titus Andronicus.
Speaking of Shakespeare’s plays, Ms Bachrach added: ‘Women basically never actually got to consent to sex or marriage, it just happened, despite the fact that often they’d repeatedly said no.’
Her project has been backed by the Leverhulme Trust and will see Ms Bachrach work alongside performers from the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Globe.
