Dedication

Authors

  • Deanne Williams York University

Abstract

We dedicate this special issue of Borrowers and Lenders on Shakespeare and Girlhood to the late Maya Angelou, who spoke feelingly about her conviction that "Shakespeare must be a black girl," as she was when she read Sonnet 29, "When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes" and remembered how she was saved by her grandmother's "sweet love."

Author Biography

Deanne Williams, York University

Deanne Williams is Associate Professor of English at York University, Toronto. She is the author of The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Cambridge 2004), which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize for best book in literature from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. She is co-editor, with Ananya Jahanara Kabir, of Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures (Cambridge 2005), and, with Kaara L. Peterson, of The Afterlife of Ophelia (Palgrave 2012). She has published articles on a wide range of topics, including Shakespeare adaptations, the history of feminist scholarship, and the reception of classical and medieval literature in the Renaissance. Her new book, Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood, was published in the Palgrave Shakespeare Studies series in 2014.

Issue Cover text: B&L, Vol. 9, No. 1, 204. Image: Two actresses in an adaptation of the Tempest wade together on a shoreline, hands clasped.

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Published

2020-07-21

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2014): Girls and Girlhood in Adaptations of Shakespeare

Section

Articles