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Volume : XIV, Issue : IX, October - 2024 WOMEN AT ODDS IN SHAKESPEARE Richa Bajaj, None By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Women in sixteenth-century England occupied a marginalized position within a patriarchal society that restricted their roles in property, power, and public life. Shakespeare, acutely aware of these social limitations, explored the condition of women with remarkable depth and variety across his works. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : Richa Bajaj, None(2024). WOMEN AT ODDS IN SHAKESPEARE. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. XIV, Issue. IX, http://isrj.org/UploadedData/11534.pdf References : - Stephen Greenblatt is of the opinion that,“The great majority of women in the kingdom had very restricted social, economic, and legal standing. To be sure, a tiny number of influential aristocratic women, such as the formidable Countess of Shrewsbury, Bess of Hardwick, wielded considerable power. But, these rare exceptions aside, women were denied any rightful claim to institutional authority or personal autonomy...When Sir Thomas Smith thinks of how he should describe his country’s social order, he declares that “we do not reject women, as those whom nature hath made to keep home, and to nourish their family and children, and not to meddle with matters abroad, nor to bear office in a city or commonwealth.” Then, with a kind over his shoulder, he makes an exception of those few for whom “the blood is respected, not the age nor the sex”: for example, the queen. (Greenblatt 9).
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