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Shakespeare's Fallen Women
Project Type
Photography
Date
April 2023
Oil Paintings
A collection of raw emotion and rage, meant to display the lesser known female characters in Shakespeare's tragedies.
What does it mean to fall? A fallen man is an honorable man. He fell in battle, he risked his life. However, a fallen woman is a dishonorable woman, she has fallen from grace. She has failed. For centuries the word fallen has been divided denoting either honor or dishonor crushing those lesser than beneath. What happens when you change the meaning? What happens when you instead look at those deemed “fallen” with strength and compassion? What happens then? Within this body of work titled Shakespeare’s Fallen Women, artist Elizabeth Sloas seeks to highlight the female characters within Shakespeare’s tragedies and see them not as just fallen women, but as soldiers in their own right.
