Shakespearersquo;s plays are permeable to the contexts in which they are performed: they take on and speak to local concerns. Early modern audiences would have experienced the humour and resonance of local identification with the plays just as we do; although the content of that identification in Australia today is uniquely our own. Ours As We Play It takes a close look at several contemporary Australian productions of three Shakespeare plays; exploring masculinity and madness in Hamlet; the role of landscape and the multiple roles of Rosalind in As You Like It; and hierarchies of gender and social order re-imagined in relation to Australian understandings of power in A Midsummer Nightrsquo;s Dream.
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