Premium Content Ways of Defining Gender in Shakespeare's History Plays
By Abigail J. Wenger - April 04, 2003
Known as a fine interpreter of human thought and action, William Shakespeare often relied on gender roles and stereotypes to create within the audience an opinion of a character or event. Since Elizabethan society made such great distinctions between the actions and feelings of men and women, Shakespeare's gender imagery most certainly would have…
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