Episode 111: Warning: Armed Women! (w/ Dr. Sarah Burdett)

“it's thinking like a man rather than acting like a man that seems to be the biggest problem and seems to instill the most amount of fear in male commentators.”

“the figure of the armed woman, who had been really popularly presented in the Georgian Playhouse right throughout the 18th century, becomes a striking symbol of revolutionary disorder and chaos. So her negotiation on the stage now has to be really carefully policed in ways that it didn't quite need to be in centuries prior.”

“Siddons transform Lady Macbeth from a controlling and dissimulative virago into a sentimental, repentant and familial queen, and finally into a haunting apparition. And this process of development really strikingly mirrors shifting depictions of Marie Antoinette in British representations.”