Saoirse Dervla Laaraichi
Member, MEMOs
Saoirse is a PhD candidate with the Shakespeare Institute. Her research focuses on the medical, political, and theatrical representation of the body in early modern culture and drama. Her wider research interests include costuming and North African influence and interaction in early modern Europe.
The Adventures of Helen Gloag in Morocco
Helen’s story and life journey are one left in mystery but should be remembered for how it displays the global contact Europe had with the rest of the world.
30 May 2022
Pearls: Trade, Beauty and North Africa
Shakespeare frequently used the pearl in relation to exoticised characters to reinforce their physical contrast to his society’s ideals of beauty
15 August 2021