Dr Chris Laoutaris re-acquaints us with some of these compelling female characters and introduces a few of the powerful women who lived in Shakespeare's time and could have influenced their creation.

So, in spite of the raging sexism of his society, Shakespeare creates both male and female characters that defy the stereotypes. The aggressive women of Macbeth have huge power in persuading a ...

whose other works include “Fight Call,” a play about a theater company’s years of rehearsing the death scenes of female Shakespeare characters. Canonical correction for the antisemitic ...