Notelets of Filth

This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's play, Emilia. Critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences, this innovative and ground-breaking show is a speculative history, an imaginative (re)telling of the life of English Renaissance poet Aemilia Bassano Lanyer. This book features essays by theatre practitioners, activists, and scholars and informed by intersectional feminist, critical race, queer, and postcolonial analyses will enable students and their teachers across secondary school and higher education to consider the play's major themes from a wide variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives. This volume explores the current events and cultural contexts that informed the writing and performing of Emilia between 2017 and 2019, various aspects of the professional London productions, critical and audience responses, and best practices for teaching the play to university and secondary school students. It includes a foreword by Emilia playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre, arts activism, feminist literature, and theory.

Laura Kressly (she/her) is a theatre critic, dramaturg, and director. She is co-founder of the Network of Independent Critics. She is currently working on her PhD at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she is also a visiting lecturer. Aida Patient (she/her) teaches women's writing in the Department of English, Languages, and Cultures at Mount Royal University in Canada. Kimberly A. Williams (she/her) is a teacher, scholar, and activist. She directs the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Mount Royal University in Canada.

List of Figures List of Boxes List of Contributors Foreword Morgan Lloyd Malcolm Introduction Laura Kressly, Aida Patient, and Kimberly A. Williams Section I: Current Events and Cultural Contexts Chapter 1 Women 'think "round it"'! Writing and Publication in Emilia Jennifer Young Chapter 2 'Burn the Whole F*cking House Down!': Black Feminist Lessons for Joyful Rage Kimberly A. Williams Chapter 3 Frenzy's Weaponry: The Mythic Dimension of Emilia David Bullen Chapter 4 "This is My Gaff": Safe Spaces, Cultural Property, and Shakespeare Peter Kirwan Chapter 5 Towards Emilia: Black and South Asian Women in the Performance of Shakespeare Sita Thomas Section II: Emilia in Practice Chapter 6 'There's a Woman on the Stage!': Emilia and the Politics of Bodies in Space in Shakespeare's Globe Sara Reimers Chapter 7 Embodying Emilia: A Conversation About Movement Creation Christina Fulcher and Anna Morrissey, with Laura Kressly Chapter 8 History, Her Story, or Our Story? Navigating the Tensions of Historically-Responsive Storytelling in Emilia Eleanor Chadwick Chapter 9 'For Eve. For Every Eve.' An Intersectional Feminist Investigation of Men's Violence Against Women in Emilia Erica Navickas Chapter 10 We are Emilia: Emilia as Witness, Witnessing Emilia Catherine Quirk Chapter 11 #IAmEmilia: When Marketing Creates a Movement Gemma Kate Allred Section III: Critics and Audiences Respond Chapter 12 'There's Only So Much Work Our Imaginations Can Do': Emilia and London's Privileged Theatre Critics Laura Kressly Chapter 13 #EmiliaFamilia: Representation Matters Heather Marshall Chapter 14 The #EmiliaFamilia: Feminist Fandom on Twitter Emma Bentley Chapter 15 Feeling Collectives: Emotions, Feminist Solidarity, and Difference in Emilia Isabel Stuart Section IV: Teaching Emilia Chapter 16 Teaching Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's Emilia in a University Classroom Aida Patient Chapter 17 On Teaching Emilia as Intersectional Feminist Praxis Kimberly A. Williams Chapter 18 'What's past is prologue': Teaching Women, Race, and Emilia in the Twenty-first Century Rebecca Steinberger Chapter 19 Opening Up New Worlds: Emilia at a London Girls' School Kathryn Martin Appendix A: A Brief Chronology of the Life and Times of Aemilia Bassano Lanyer Aida Patient Appendix B: Biographies of Historical Figures in Emilia Janet Bartholomew Appendix C: Nationality, Racial and Education Demographics of Emilia Critics Laura Kressly Appendix D: Semester Research Project for an Introductory Women's and Gender Studies Course Kimberly A. Williams