TY - JOUR
T1 - “Let me be part of the narrative” – The Schuyler Sisters ‘almost’ feminist?
AU - Chandler, Clare
N1 - The journals website offers online Interventions, responding to current developments in the filed and extending discussions from the print journal through a variety of writing formats and multimedia.
PY - 2018/10/11
Y1 - 2018/10/11
N2 - There is no doubt that Hamilton has sparked a ‘cultural conversation’ (Monteiro, A, 2016:90). However, Michael Schulman sees Hamilton as ‘almost’ feminist (Schulman, 2016), so, as female characters plead to be ‘part of the narrative’ (Miranda, 2015) this article seeks to unpick, and explore their representation within Hamilton, so as to establish the extent to which show’s progressive label extends to gender representation, or reinforces regressive stereotypes and tropes.
AB - There is no doubt that Hamilton has sparked a ‘cultural conversation’ (Monteiro, A, 2016:90). However, Michael Schulman sees Hamilton as ‘almost’ feminist (Schulman, 2016), so, as female characters plead to be ‘part of the narrative’ (Miranda, 2015) this article seeks to unpick, and explore their representation within Hamilton, so as to establish the extent to which show’s progressive label extends to gender representation, or reinforces regressive stereotypes and tropes.
KW - Musical Theatre
KW - Hamilton: An American Musical
KW - Gender
KW - Feminism
M3 - Article (journal)
JO - Contemporary Theatre Review Interventions
JF - Contemporary Theatre Review Interventions
ER -
