1. Women in Shakespearian Comedies
... , is obviously the most privileged and possibly powerful of the women who are considered here given her position as a royal. However, she is also the woman upon whom the most strict and rigid social expectations are enforced and for whom it is the most difficult to achieve the kind of autonomy for which she yearns. In fact, her most ... strict critic is her own son, Hamlet, who finds it utterly despicable that his mother pursues his own uncle for a romantic relationship after her husband's death. Hamlet is offended and embarrassed; ... appropriate period of mourning for her deceased hu...
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