Shakespeare: Empowering Women

Male-dominated society - England of the 16th century - Elizabethan morning, Shakespeare depicts at least the strength of a woman comparable to men. By doing so, he opened the door for them politically and socially, before granting any legal rights to the woman. Some people think Shakespeare's view of women comes from the role he made (Kolin 11). He said "It is as close as possible to creating a practical value system without creating a character's mouthpiece as I thought" (Greer 39).

Perhaps the most important recognition of Shakespeare's empowerment are many women without the name "as writers, competitors, help members, manuscript exchange participants, scribes and editors" during the Shakespeare era (Smith 18). Helen Smith's "Grossly Material Things" is focusing on revealing the forced invisibility of women in printculture in the 1600s. Women can request translations for "religion and family life" (Smith 32), but their cooperation in writing documents is often not required (Smith 52). By analyzing personal records it is clear that women play far more than women 's approved documents in developing documents we study today. Indeed, "women and their labor force are at the heart of early modern book transactions" (Smith 89). They work at the printing laboratory and have a direct grasp on how the work was copied.

Shakespeare is clearly a greedy reader, so I am interested in women in the Shakespearean plays. This explains women's love for Shakespeare's comedy ("Winter Story" is the most frequently read script). "Compared to other types of women, young comedy women write and read a lot" (Teague 361). Most of reading and writing takes the form of letters, comedy and shakespeare share many characters between them. In Shakespeare's era, I believe that by demonstrating this skill again, we can bring rich and feminine evaluation to Shakespeare's plays by "being able to read only 10% of women in the UK" (Teague 362) . As Teague's "Study of Judith Shakespeare" there is a clear "relationship" between access to women's books and education and their family's social position (366).