Shakespeare's Sister | Fiona Shaw | Figures Of Speech

Fiona Shaw reads Shakespeare's Sister, part of the essay A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, based on a series of lectures she gave at Cambridge University in October 1928.
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[@frogmouth]

What a combination: Shaw and Woolf. Prescient.

[@frogmouth]

Is it read? Feels more like it's being performed: memorized and acted as if each thought is coming in real time

[@ronacohen9709]

Beautifully written, brilliantly performed!

[@nataliecleri1629]

inspiring

[@wesleyedwards3031]

Beautiful

[@gigijax2043]

This woman helped me so much. To listen

[@jamesc7019]

Brilliant

[@qvide]

"a series of lectures she gave at Cambridge University in October 1928" is a bit misleading; Woolf was invited by societies at Girton and Newnham (women's) Colleges, not the university; though the colleges were then part of the university, Cambridge did not allow women to received degrees untuil 1948.

[@Tootsy39]

Im Gay .