... presented in their respective plays.Although Shakespeare permits some of the female characters to exist fully outside of conventional norms, others are put back into their place. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, the reader recognizes right away that Hermia is not ordinary woman. Her father, Egeus, has dragged Hermia off to Theseus's court in a desperate attempt to compel his daughter ... is important to determine their significance as assertions of female agency, authority, and autonomy in a socio-historic context that allowed women little of these rights or privileges. A Midsummer Night's...

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