Two shows of a play titled “Shakespeare’s Wife” will be staged at Ranga Shankara, J.P. Nagar, Bengaluru, on Saturday (August 12), between 3.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m.
“Shakespeare’s Wife” is a solo performance that attempts to see William Shakespeare through his wife’s eyes. Written in Kannada by Uday Itagi, and translated into English by Laxmi Chandrashekar, an award-winning translator, the play is inspired by Robert Nay’s novel ‘Mrs’.
Shakespeare’ and Shakespeare’s sonnets. Fortified with information drawn from the famous feminist scholar, Germaine Greer’s well- researched work ‘Shakespeare’s Wife’, the play gives us glimpses of the social structure and the status of women in Elizabethan England.
