1. Shakespeare in Love: A Woman in a Man's Profession
This theory is stabilised via many of his female characters such as Lady Macbeth and Gertrude in Hamlet, as according to Dall (2000): "Through Gertrude's marriage to Hamlet's uncle and also through Lady Macbeth's unbridled political ambition, Shakespeare dramatizes real political concerns that evolved from and during the reign of Elizabeth Tudor.... According to Gerlach et al (1996): "In his own time, Shakespeare seems to have been raising questions about the standard images of males and females, about what the characteristics of each gender are, about what is defined ...
- Word Count: 1880
- Approx Pages: 8
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate