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Readers stage a reflection on how male authors wrote women from Rosalind to Molly Bloom
Summary
A public reading examined recurring literary treatments of female characters — from Shakespeare’s Rosalind to Joyce’s Molly Bloom — arguing both erasure and nuanced portrayals and using excerpts to illustrate how men have shaped female roles on the page.
A staged reading on Oct. 11 revisited how male authors have written female characters across Western literature, using passages and commentary to show both stereotyped and complex portrayals.
The reading focused on examples ranging from Shakespeare’s Rosalind and Homer’s Penelope to James Joyce’s Molly Bloom, Tennessee Williams’s Blanche, and Hemingway’s Brett, exploring how male authors have alternately constrained and gifted women with agency on the page. The performers read long excerpts and interleaved short observations about authorship, intent and reception.
The event matters because it highlighted how literary history has been…
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