Osher Lifelong Learning Institute- Shakespeare

During the past few decades some of the most exciting work in the field of Shakespeare studies has focussed on the part played by women in Shakespeare’s plays. “Tell-tale” smacks of tattle tale, of gossiping, of whining victims too weak to stand up for themselves. But if I invoke these derogatory stereotypes it is only to show by how far so many of Shakespeare’s women transcend them and what extraordinary tales they have to tell..