... her gender as 'Thomas Kent'. Explore the issues of gender as it is portrayed within the film. "The way societies think about and treat women is often considered a means of measuring how civilised they are"– Dusinberre, 2003 William Shakespeare is arguably the ... Shakespeare does give female protagonists power within many of his plays; yet these plays do not address the role of women royalty; as concern about the sovereign's gender formed one of the primary social considerations of Shakespeare's day, one might expect to see these gender considerations revealed in Shakespeare ... works,...

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