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Arguments between Shakespeare’s
daughters and their fathers, most Arranged marriages were generally
I would my daughter were dead at So is the will of a living daughter
of them centre on the attempt by accepted as a way of preserving
my feet – Shylock after Jessica’s curb’d by the will of a dead father –
fathers to ensure that their and increasing family assets – Julia
elopement Portia
daughters make an acceptable Briggs
marriage
Woman is an excellent ornament of
Shakespeare’s father as presented
men since she is granted to man
as pompous fools or angry old men, It is only in Shakespeare’s last
not only to procreate children… but A mother might have protected a
lacking in insight or wisdom. Their plays ‘The Tempest’ that there is a
also in possession and, as it were, daughter from the extremes of
language provokes ridicule or a father and daughter that respect
in dominion, over which man may patriarchal control
humorous response rather than and love each other
exercise his jurisdiction and
respect
authority – Cornelius a Lapide
Much Ado highlights the comedic
Class boundaries are firmly
trope of any woman that swears
observed in Shakespeare’s
that she won’t get married, but the “Peace, I’ll stop your mouth” (Much
Prominent, active roles are defining comedies such as Malvolio’s
plot contorts itself to ensure that Ado). Beatrice never speaks again
features of Shakespeare’s comedy fantasy of marrying his mistress
happens – “I would rather hear my for the remainder of the play
Olivia in ‘Twelfth Night’ results in
dog bark at a crow than a man
his humiliating punishment
swear he loves me”
Comedic plots do not tend to Mockery and derision were
Modern readings of plays like
endorse the idea of women’s indispensable means of preserving Many writers in the late Elizabethan
Hamlet and King Lear tend to stress
autonomy, nor to encourage them orthodox values and condemning period were interested in the idea
the familial and personal rather
to rebel, except temporarily, about unorthodox behaviour – Keith of the self-made man
than the political
gender roles Thomas
Perhaps this view of a more liberal
Whilst Shakespeare’s depiction of The most outstanding feature of
or open minded Shakespeare is,
Comedies assert social certainties; social status seem conservative, Shakespearean comedy is its
however, a creation of our own
tragedies chart social decline attitudes towards women and pervading obsession with marriage
period – a reflection of the politics
outsiders are more progressive – Lisa Hopkins
of our own time
Kate’s monologue is the longest
Passages of stichomythia in 2.1 If I do prove her haggard, […] I’d
speech in the play, and she is the
indicate the speed and dexterity whistle her off and let her down the
antithesis of the silent wife praised
with which they verbally battle. wind/ To prey at fortune – Othello
in the religious tracks of the time
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