Popular Culture, Shakespeare, and Gender
Presentation Type
Event
Full Name of Faculty Mentor
Robin Russell
Other Mentors
Additional Mentor: Gwendolyn Schwinke, Theatre
Major
Theatre
Presentation Abstract
A gender role is the learned behavior of an individual considered acceptable by society in relation to their biological sex. We are examining the similarities and differences between the depictions of gender roles through theatre and film. We juxtapose two of Shakespeare's plays to modern movie adaptations of the same stories to compare and contrast the gender roles of Elizabethan times and today. William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is the basis for the 2006 film She's The Man, and The Taming of the Shrew is the basis for the 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You. The female leads in the plays and films display behavior contradictory to conventional gender roles of their respective times. Shakespeare's plays were popular entertainment during Elizabethan times and films are a key component of popular culture today. Popular culture influences stereotypes — including overgeneralizing female gender roles. We examined the ways these plays and films overgeneralize female gender.
Location
Brittain Hall, Room 112
Start Date
17-4-2019 1:10 PM
End Date
17-4-2019 1:30 PM
Disciplines
Theatre and Performance Studies
Recommended Citation
Potts, Dara and Dobbs, Amelia, "Popular Culture, Shakespeare, and Gender" (2019). Undergraduate Research Competition. 50.
https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/ugrc/2019/oral/50
Popular Culture, Shakespeare, and Gender
Brittain Hall, Room 112
A gender role is the learned behavior of an individual considered acceptable by society in relation to their biological sex. We are examining the similarities and differences between the depictions of gender roles through theatre and film. We juxtapose two of Shakespeare's plays to modern movie adaptations of the same stories to compare and contrast the gender roles of Elizabethan times and today. William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is the basis for the 2006 film She's The Man, and The Taming of the Shrew is the basis for the 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You. The female leads in the plays and films display behavior contradictory to conventional gender roles of their respective times. Shakespeare's plays were popular entertainment during Elizabethan times and films are a key component of popular culture today. Popular culture influences stereotypes — including overgeneralizing female gender roles. We examined the ways these plays and films overgeneralize female gender.