{"id":5156,"date":"2024-03-21T12:33:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/?p=5156"},"modified":"2024-03-21T12:33:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:33:14","slug":"shakespeares-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/2024\/03\/21\/shakespeares-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare&#8217;s Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A talk about Shakespeare may not be everyone\u2019s cup of tea. However, think again. To Celebrate International Women\u2019s Day, Cannock and District Soroptimists were treated to a superb presentation by Jennifer Rigby entitled \u201cShakespeare\u2019s Women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer began her talk by pointing out that we tend to put Shakespeare on a pedestal and forget that he was just an ordinary family man. We frequently hear famous quotes from plays normally spoken by men. But where are the women in Shakespeare? Who were the women in Shakespeare\u2019s life?<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer believes the strong women in Shakespeare\u2019s family had a big influence. He was brought up on his mother Mary Arden\u2019s farm. His plays reflect a love of the countryside, plants and nature, as well as a love of food and animals. He grew up with sisters who gave him a unique insight into emotions such as love, loss, jealousy. He was close to his own daughter Susannah which Jennifer felt shone through Juliet\u2019s speeches. There are male characters who speak of female concerns with sensitivity. Sometimes they even blame men for their problems! Shakespeare\u2019s wife Anne Hathaway was a strong woman who ran the family business in Stratford. Despite his fame Shakespeare always returned to his wife and his sonnets speak of marriage, love, compromise.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer\u2019s \u00a0presentation was more a performance than a talk, punctuated with funny stories and anecdotes such as her time working as an actor at Mary Arden\u2019s House which is a working Tudor farm. It wasn\u2019t easy as a vegetarian to be offered pork meat from the pig you have been looking after! She performed extracts from plays, recited sonnets and all delivered with an obvious enthusiasm and panache.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2024\/03\/Shakespeares-women-Jennifer-Rigby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5157\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2024\/03\/Shakespeares-women-Jennifer-Rigby-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2024\/03\/Shakespeares-women-Jennifer-Rigby-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2024\/03\/Shakespeares-women-Jennifer-Rigby.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2024\/03\/Shakespears-women-IWD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5158\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2024\/03\/Shakespears-women-IWD-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2024\/03\/Shakespears-women-IWD-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2024\/03\/Shakespears-women-IWD.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Photos : 1)\u00a0 Jennifer Rigby 2) SI Cannock members celebrating International Women\u2019s Day by making the \u2018heart\u2019 symbol<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A talk about Shakespeare may not be everyone\u2019s cup of tea. 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