... some of the main motivators of action as well as some of the most complex characters overall. Some of the most interesting female characters in Shakespeare's writing are Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Viola and Olivia in Twelfth Night, and Gertrude, the Queen of Denmark and Hamlet's mother, in Hamlet. Although each of these women finds herself in a social position and ... quite developed and are in many ways some of the most complex characters presented in their respective plays.Although Shakespeare permits some of the female characters to exist fully outside of conventional norms...

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