Gender-switching ‘The Taming of the Shrew’

‘The Taming of the Shrew’ is one of those plays which nobody quite knows how to handle in this day and age. Not to perform it at all would, in a sense, be airbrushing Shakespeare, and yet very few modern audiences feel entirely comfortable watching a play in which a man literally starves his wife…

Why I don’t hate D H Lawrence

A lot of people hate DH Lawrence. More specifically, a lot of 70s feminists hate DH Lawrence. I (although I am admittedly not old enough to have been born in the 1970s!) do not hate DH Lawrence. In fact, I admire him. I would probably be ardently disliked by 70s feminists. Lawrence’s detractors claim that…