Guardian Unlimited Arts: "From Lady Macbeth to Thérèse Raquin, the stage has always adored a brutal murderess. So what do these parts tell us about women? Not much, writes Lyn Gardner - but they speak volumes about the male writers who created them "
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This is such an interesting way to think about the role of women characters throughout theatre history. It makes you wonder how much of the feminine ideal is really shaped through the thoughts of men and how accurate such thoughts were. At one point all forms of theatre came from the hands of men, now things have changed, but we must wonder much of what we see is still influenced by those foundations? Have we only modernized the medieval male views of women, or with the acceptance of female playwrights, etc. have such characters taken on a distinctly more realist tone?
-Samantha Englender
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