{"id":29018,"date":"2023-11-13T16:32:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T21:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=29018"},"modified":"2023-11-13T17:20:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T22:20:33","slug":"margaret-oakes-talks-margaret-cavendish-on-british-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/margaret-oakes-talks-margaret-cavendish-on-british-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Oakes talks Margaret Cavendish on British podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29019\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29019\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29019 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/11\/Margaret-Oakes-To-Gender-or-not-to-Gender-200x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"book cover showing actors on a stage\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/11\/Margaret-Oakes-To-Gender-or-not-to-Gender-200x300-1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/11\/Margaret-Oakes-To-Gender-or-not-to-Gender-200x300-1-100x150.jpg 100w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Oakes&#8217;s new book is due out in April 2024.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/margaret-j-oakes\/\">Margaret Oakes<\/a>, an English professor, had a conversation with British podcast host David Crowther about the colorful 17th century figure Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Known for her fashion statements and a prolific writing career, a rarity in the day for women, Cavendish captured Oakes&#8217;s attention in the 1990s in part for the broad array of genres the Duchess covered, among them, science writing, poetry, verse and plays. Learn more about her in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehistoryofengland.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/11\/12\/margarey-cavendish-with-prof-margaret-oakes\/\">The History of England<\/a>&#8221; podcast from Crowther who also plugged Oakes&#8217;s new book due out in April, &#8220;To Gender or Not to Gender: Casting and Characters for 21st Century Shakespeare&#8221; (McFarland Books).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oakes talks about the colorful and bold 17th century Duchess of Newcastle with David Crowther, host of &#8220;The History of England&#8221; podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":29021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6,2393],"tags":[2394,2396,2395],"class_list":["post-29018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-in-the-news","category-the-history-of-england","tag-british-history","tag-duchess-of-newcastle","tag-margaret-cavendish"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}