Notelets of Filth: A Companion Reader to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's Emilia

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This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s play, Emilia. Critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences, this innovative and ground-breaking show is a speculative history, an imaginative (re)telling of the life of English Renaissance poet Aemilia Bassano Lanyer. This book features essays by theatre practitioners, activists, and scholars and informed by intersectional feminist, critical race, queer, and postcolonial analyses will enable students and their teachers across secondary school and higher education to consider the play’s major themes from a wide variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives. This volume explores the current events and cultural contexts that informed the writing and performing of Emilia between 2017 and 2019, various aspects of the professional London productions, critical and audience responses, and best practices for teaching the play to university and secondary school students. It includes a foreword by Emilia playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre, arts activism, feminist literature, and theory. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures List of Boxes List of Contributors Foreword Introduction SECTION I: Current Events and Cultural Contexts 1 Women ‘think round it’! Writing and Publication in Emilia 2 ‘Burn the Whole F*cking House Down!’: Black Feminist Lessons for Joyful Rage 3 Frenzy’s Weaponry: The Mythic Dimension of Emilia 4 ‘This is My Gaff’: Safe Spaces, Cultural Property, and Shakespeare 5 Towards Emilia: Black and South Asian Women in the performance of Shakespeare SECTION II: Emilia in Practice 6 ‘There’s a Woman on the Stage!’: Emilia and the Politics of Bodies in Space at Shakespeare’s Globe 7 Embodying Emilia: A conversation about movement creation 8 History, Her Story, or Our Story? Navigating the Tensions of Historically-Responsive Storytelling in Emilia 9 ‘For Eve. For Every Eve’: An Intersectional Feminist Investigation of Men’s Violence Against Women in Emilia 10 We are Emilia: Emilia as Witness, Witnessing Emilia 11 #IAmEmilia: When Marketing Creates a Movement SECTION III: Critics and Audiences Respond 12 ‘There’s Only So Much Work Our Imaginations Can Do’: Emilia and London’s Privileged Theatre Critics 13 #EmiliaFamilia: Representation Matters 14 The #EmiliaFamilia: Feminist Fandom on Twitter 15 Feeling Collectives: Emotions, Feminist Solidarity, and Difference in Emilia SECTION IV: Teaching Emilia 16 Teaching Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s Emilia in a University Classroom 17 On Teaching Emilia as Intersectional Feminist Praxis 18 ‘What’s past is prologue’: Teaching Women, Race, and Emilia in the Twenty-first Century 19 Opening Up New Worlds: Emilia at a London Girls’ School Appendix A: A Brief Chronology of the Life and Times of Aemilia Bassano Lanyer Appendix B: Biographies of Historical Figures in Emilia Appendix C: Nationality, Racial, and Education Demographics of Emilia Critics Appendix D: Semester research project