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A considerable number of book-length studies and academic articles investigate the topic, and several moons of Uranus are named after women in Shakespeare. In Shakespeare's tragedies and his plays in general, there are several types of female characters. They influence other characters, but are also often underestimated.
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Portia is a female protagonist in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.In creating her character, Shakespeare drew from the historical figure of Porcia [1] — the daughter of Cato the Younger — as well as several parts of the Bible.
Mistress Nell Quickly is a fictional character who appears in several plays by William Shakespeare. She is an inn-keeper, who runs the Boar's Head Tavern, at which Sir John Falstaff and his disreputable cronies congregate. The character appears in four plays: Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Beatrice is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing.In the play, she is the niece of Leonato and the cousin of Hero.Atypically for romantic heroines of the sixteenth century, she is feisty and sharp-witted; these characteristics have led some scholars to label Beatrice a protofeminist character.
Shakespeare based the character on Regan, a personage described by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his pseudo-historical chronicle Historia regum Britanniae ("History of the Kings of Britain", c. 1138) as one of the British king Lear's three daughters, alongside Goneril and Cordelia (the source for Cordelia), and the mother of Cunedagius.
Virgilia is described by John Ruskin as "perhaps loveliest" of Shakespeare's female characters.. 19th-century critic Anna Jameson described Virgilia as possessing "modest sweetness,"conjugal tenderness, " and "fond solicitude," in contrast to what she saw as the "haughty temper," "admiration of the valour and high hearing of her son," and "proud but unselfish love for" Coriolanus of Volumnia.