Laura Selene Rockefeller
Laura is a writer, actress, and first person historical interpreter. She is currently an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing program at Emerson College. Her play CLOVER was produced by Ally Theatre Company in Washington, DC in the fall of 2017, and she writes and performs one-woman historic character portrayals for educational groups up and down the East Coast such as and The Smithsonian Institution and The Daughters of the American Revolution. Laura has published two articles of literary criticism in "Brontë Studies." She is an Associate Company Member and Teaching Artist at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company in Baltimore, and has performed with regional theaters across the country including The Folger Theatre, Kentucky Shakespeare, and Round House Theatre.
Works
SHIRLEY and the Politics of Personal Faith Published in "Brontë Studies," The Journal of the Brontë Society , Volume 32, 2007 - Issue 2
This article is the core of a chapter on Charlotte Brontë’s novel SHIRLEY from a thesis paper in which I explored the tension between organized religion and personal faith in Charlotte Brontë’s four major novels. In this chapter, I specifically examine how Shirley combines many of the themes from Charlotte Brontë’s juvenilia and earlier novels, most strikingly the themes of death and resurrection, and the deep connection of Shirley herself to her Mother Earth. The antagonism between Dissenters and the Established Church, which is more vividly depicted in SHIRLEY than in any of Charlotte’s other novels, and presents an interesting and timely examination of the problematic connection between Church and State, is explored.
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Boston, MA
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Fiction & Literature, Entertainment & Culture, Children, Biography & History