Comparing Shakespearean Heroines

Abstract: A 5 page essay that contrasts and compares the resourceful Viola from Twelfth Night and the feisty Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing. The writer argues that while Shakespeare wrote for his age and was influenced by the social concepts of gender that were prevalent in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, his plays also indicate that he saw women as thinking, feeling individuals who had the capability to be the equals of men. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

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Subcatagory: Much Ado About Nothing

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