Women Writers Project

This is the first post in a series that will be authored by our collaborators on the Intertextual Networks project. For more information, see here.  By Tabitha Kenlon, Assistant Professor at the American University in Dubai For Intertextual Networks, I’ll be looking at Hannah Cowley’s uses of Shakespearean tropes in her plays. Cowley worked with David Garrick, who almost single-handedly renewed eighteenth-century audiences’ interest in Shakespeare; he revolutionized the way actors portrayed Shakespeare’s characters, and he and other writers re-wrote some of the…

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