... 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 challenging situation that ... their own power-indeed, beyond human power-will need to intervene, which is a theme that carries through in other works by Shakespeare presenting women characters and the need for an ou...

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• Grade Level: Graduate