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Fairy tales and myths are more than just ‘old stories’ – having been told and retold through centuries and sometimes millennia, they have shaped most of the archetypes of people and situations which we use, knowingly or unknowingly, to make sense of our world. They have taught generation after generation about the human condition, often in strongly gendered terms (think heroes and princes, stepmothers and witches), but usually with a distinct silencing of female voices. Writers since the second half of the 20^th century have started a large-scale project of re-inserting the unheard voices- the women, the (often female) monsters – into the original myths. We will read (watch? play??) some of these works and consider the revisions that they suggest.