The second year of the Trust’s long-term project researching the Women Who Made Shakespeare is centred on the heroines from his plays. In response to that I decided to enquire about them, poke at collective memory and see what we recall about females in the bard’s plays. I asked attendees of the celebrations to recall their favourite heroines and share with me what they knew about them by simply finishing the sentence, the heroine was...
I have learnt heaps about diverse heroines but also about people’s personal connections to them. Some people shared the name, some played female character in a school play while being a boy. Juliet was the most popular choice with 24 mentions.
The publication offers a snapshot of collective memory and is in itself an insight into what remains in our minds about a character once the play is long finished.
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