This week’s free webinar is postponed. Shakespeare Center LA will  continue to support the Black community by asking for everyone to pause and draw attention to the Black Lives Matter movement. We encourage everyone to give their support to the Black community.. Give financially, petition for bias awareness training in your community and work-place, brainstorm and act on the changes possible in your own community in order to bring  justice, healing, and freedom to Black and Brown people.

Shakespeare Center LA is looking into ways that the Bard Talks can share ideas for change as well as support changes in the community to create a more diverse, creatively inclusive, and just world. 

Shakespeare's history plays might be described as a genre where women never get what they want. Hailey Bachrach explores how and why Shakespeare does not give his ladies and princesses the chance to consent to marriage. Watch this free zoom webinar on Saturday, June 20th at 10am Pacific. >>Register Now<<

PRESENTER BIO: Hailey Bachrach is a PhD candidate at King’s College London and Shakespeare’s Globe. Her dissertation is currently in progress, and focuses on the dramaturgy of female roles in early modern history plays. Her other interests include contemporary and historical performance, all-female performance, “gender-blind” casting practices (and the reasons she doesn’t use that phrase) in Shakespeare and writers, and history plays generally from the early modern period to the present.

She is very interested in public humanities and academic outreach, and am continually engaged in finding intersections between academic work and critical and dramaturgical writing.

ABOUT BARD TALKS: Now in its second season, Bard Talks hosted by Shakespeare Center LA are free webinars presented by distinguished scholars who reveal Shakespeare's secrets about acting, directing, sonnets, food and more!