Dr Hailey Bachrach celebrates launch of Consent in Shakespeare website

• Wednesday, June 15, 2022

A new website dedicated to the issue of consent in Shakespeare's work has launched, based on the research of Dr Hailey Bachrach, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, Shakespeare and Consent explores what consent looked like on Shakespeare’s stage, and how it looks now. The website's finding are based on a range of materials, including reviews of theatrical productions, interviews and writing by artists and other scholars. The project examines both the early modern stage and the theatre industry of the present to see how Shakespeare continues to shape conversations around depicting consent onstage. 

Dr Bachrach commented: "I'm so excited to launch the Shakespeare and Consent website. From the beginning, I've considered it a key element of the project. There is so much exciting work happening right now surrounding ideas about Shakespeare, performance and consent, and I felt the project simply couldn't exist without creating a place to collect and reflect on all the ideas that will influence the final outputs even if they don't actually make it into the monograph. Thanks to Mat Martin Studio and their amazing design, I've also learned how valuable the process of thinking through a website structure can be to clarifying the basic goals and ideas of a project in its early stages, which was an added benefit I wasn't expecting."