Women in "A Midsummer Night’s Dream". Sex, Gender, and Social Norms of Feminity in the Elizabethan Age and in Shakespeare's Comedy

Download or read book Women in "A Midsummer Night’s Dream". Sex, Gender, and Social Norms of Feminity in the Elizabethan Age and in Shakespeare's Comedy written by Martha Nisi and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 0,7, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: The aim of the present paper is to examine the role of women in Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream". The first section investigates women in early modern England and is divided into the subsections "Sex and gender in early modern England" and "Norms of femininity". Section two explores the role of women in the sixteenth century comedy. More precisely, the emphasis here will be upon the analysis of female-female and female-male bonds of the characters in the play.