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THE WOMAN WHO WROTE SHAKESPEARE: A NEW AUTHORSHIP CANDIDATE is a four-part presentation about Amelia Bassano Lanyer, whom the Shakespearean Authorship Trust in the United Kingdom recently accepted as one of the top eight possible authors of the works of William Shakespeare,. A Jewish woman of Moorish ancestry, Amelia Bassano Lanyer was the first woman to publish a book of original poetry in England in 1611 and has long been known as the 'Dark Lady' of Shakespeare's sonnets.
Over two evenings, March 10 and 11, scholar John Hudson will present two lectures, the first describing the latest evidence of Lanyer's candidacy based on his recent research at the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham. He will outline how Shakespeare's plays contain Jewish religious allegories that could only been written by a Jewish poet and will demonstrate how Lanyer left her literary signatures on the plays. Lanyer is the only possible candidate who changes the meaning and staging of the plays. The second lecture delves into A Midsummer Nights Dream as a comic Jewish satire, and what this Jewish allegory tells us about who wrote the plays.
Then, on Sunday afternoons March 16 and 23, Hudson and The Dark Lady Players, a troupe of 14 highly trained Shakespearean actors, will delve into As You Like It, illustrating the allegory with live scenes.
The Woman Who Wrote Shakespeare is intended to spark new interest in the authorship of Shakespeare's plays, encourage debate about them and shed light on new ways of presenting them.
Schedule:
Lectures by John Hudson (Shakespeare Institute)
March 10 at 7:30 pm: The Authorship Question
March 11 at 7:30 pm: The meaning of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a comic Jewish satire
Workshops on As You Like It with The Dark Lady Players
March 16th & 23rd at 3 pm
Admission: Pay What You Can at the Door
http://www.darkladyplayers.com
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