Judith Shakespeare

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What if William Shakespeare had a sister, with equal poetic talent in Elizabethan times? Virginia Woolf asks and answers this question in her seminal feminist text, A Room of One’s Own by introducing the fictional character, Judith Shakespeare.  The artist brings Judith Shakespeare into 2016 using a carnivalesque aesthetic with it’s humor and chaos, to explore the wrestle for a ‘room of ones own’ for a female artist. With the artist reading the text as a protest piece, numerous performance pieces have been carried out in public places over the course of the year. 

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"Shakespeare's sister will put on the body which she has so often laid down. Drawing her life from the lives of the unknown who were her forerunners...she will be born. I maintain that she would come if we worked for her, and that so to work, even in poverty and obscurity, is worthwhile."

 

Virginia Woolf A Room Of One's Own.

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