[PAST EVENT] Mad Women in Shakespeare: Lady Macbeth's Rage 

October 11, 2023
12pm - 1pm
Location
Blow Memorial Hall, Room 201
262 Richmond Rd
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Access & Features
  • Free food
  • Open to the public
Mad Women in Shakespeare: Lady Macbeth's Rage
Mad Women in Shakespeare: Lady Macbeth's Rage

In this talk, Professor Andrzejewski close-reads Lady Macbeth’s expressions of anger to posit that, when read through the frameworks of mad, disability, and affect studies, Shakespeare’s mad/women speak to the ways minoritized subjects’ rage is dismissed more broadly. She demonstrates that these women’s bloodied hands, their vibrant flowers, their insatiable lust, and their explosive self-centered claims on the world deserve to be heard, deserve uptake, despite centuries of readings that have rendered them hysterical. 

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