Tuesday 15 September 2020

IF SHAKESPEARE HAD HAD A SISTER ...


Virginia Woolf often questioned why men had always had power, influence, wealth, and reputation, while women had nothing but children. She believed that there would be female Shakespeare in the future only if women found the first two keys to freedom: independent incomes (=money) and “rooms of their own” (=privacy), a metaphor for women having access to their own private space. When A Room of One's Own was first published in 1929, it was considered revolutionary. Most people considered women less intelligent than men, they did not think about women's freedom and certainly no one was writing about it, let alone as convincingly as Virginia Woolf. Her essay became a classic in the movement toward equality. Even today it is hardly dated, for the reason that there are still some men (and women) who suppose that men are “the superior sex”.

If women were equal to men, people asked, why had none of them produced great literature like Shakespeare's? Virginia Woolf replied that this lack of achievement had nothing to with innate ability and everything to do with women's lack of opportunity.

To illustrate this, Virginia Woolf imagined a Judith Shakespeare, William's sister, going to London to make her fortune as a playwright. Unfortunately, she was regarded as a sex object, so rather than being taken seriously as a writer, she was lied to and seduced, she became pregnant and eventually committed suicide.

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Monday 14 September 2020

Sunday 6 September 2020

IMPROVING YOUR ENGLISH

My English 10 Wordle. Honors helped me come up with quotes and words from  class. They are going to use wordle for a project. T… | True life, Book  quotes, Good books

On www.test-english.com you will find lots of free practice tests and materials to help you improve your English skills and be more prepared for your English exams.
Here you can read a very interesting blog post!

Tuesday 1 September 2020

SEPTEMBER

Dorset and Hampshire Live: Friday 2 September - BBC News

"For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure."