Review: Witchcraft in Their Lips by University of Texas (other)

by Michael Meigs
Published on May 09, 2016

These few, this band of sisters of 'Untamed Shakespeare,' have taken deep draughts of the pure source material and are celebrating Shakespeare with the fervor the Bacchae celebrated Dionysus.

A swift-moving though at times bewildering collection of scenes from Shakespeare's histories, Witchcraft in their Lips closets you with a dozen women reveling in scenes mined from eight of Shakespeare's eight history plays. Stephanie Donowho and Nell McKeown, not featured in that dozen, collected and arranged these excerpts in an effort to evaluate Shakespeare's female characters, depicted in plots of vigorous masculine struggle.     While confirming that many of the plays, especially the histories, …

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