{"id":358,"date":"2018-01-14T16:32:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T16:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/?page_id=358"},"modified":"2018-01-17T10:47:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T10:47:15","slug":"shakespeares-sister-lady-mary-wroth-at-archbishops-school-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/shakespeares-sister-lady-mary-wroth-at-archbishops-school-canterbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare’s Sister: Lady Mary Wroth at Archbishop’s School, Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students at Archbishop\u2019s School, <\/span>Canterbury, compared<\/span> Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet\u00a0<\/i>to Love\u2019s Victory <\/i>(c.1618) by his female contemporary, Lady Mary Wroth, in order to investigate how attitudes to paternal control and romance might differ from those presented in Hamlet.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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Miss J. Creaney\u2019s Year 12 class explored Act 1 Scene 3 of Hamlet <\/i>where Ophelia\u2019s romance with Hamlet is rigorously policed by both her father Polonius and her brother Laertes. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Act 1 Scene 3 Hamlet<\/em> (1990) directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Ophelia (Helena Bonham Carter) is directed by both her father, Polonius, and brother, Laertes. Ophelia pledges to obey the commands of her father and brother as they forbid the relationship with Hamlet.<\/p><\/div>\n

Having drawn comparisons with their own autonomy (or lack of it), in romantic relationships, they worked on Act 5 Scene 1 of the female-authored Love\u2019s Victory <\/i>where the heroine, Musella, is forced into a marriage by the will of her dead father. Musella gives full voice to the spirited feelings of resistance to paternal control which are only glimpsed fleetingly in Ophelia\u2019s role:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Simeana. <\/i>Have patience.
\n<\/span>Musella.<\/i> I can not, nor I will not.
\n<\/span>Patient be! Ay me, and bear this ill lot?
\n<\/span>No; I will grieve in spite of grief, and mourn
\n<\/span>To make those mad who now to pleasure turn.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Musella\u2019s freedom in expressing her emotions and opinions in Lady Mary Wroth\u2019s Love\u2019s Victory, staged reading in Baron\u2019s Hall, Penshurst Place, coordinated by Martin Hodgson, Globe Education \u2018Read not Dead\u2019, 8 June 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

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Younger student actors (Susie Smith and Paula McGowan) perform Musella\u2019s complaint to her friend Simeana about her arranged marriage in Stephanie Hodgson-Wright\u2019s 1999 production by Poetic Justice Theatre Company at Bede Hall, Sunderland University<\/p><\/div>\n

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Students at Archbishop\u2019s School, Canterbury, compared Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet\u00a0to Love\u2019s Victory (c.1618) by his female contemporary, Lady Mary Wroth, in order to investigate how attitudes to paternal control and romance might differ from those presented in Hamlet. Miss J. Creaney\u2019s Year 12 class explored Act 1 Scene 3 of Hamlet where Ophelia\u2019s romance with Hamlet is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":462,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-358","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7IR4b-5M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/358\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}