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A category containing female characters in William Shakespeare's works. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. H.
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.
Characters he placed lower than some of Hazlitt's other critical works; yet he allowed that, aside from such "outbursts" as his railing against the historical King Henry V, [327] and his over-reliance on quotation from Schlegel, Characters of Shakespear's Plays is filled with much that is admirable, notably Hazlitt's comparison of Chaucer's and ...
Rosalind is the heroine and protagonist of the play As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare.In the play, she disguises herself as a male shepherd named Ganymede. Many actors have portrayed Rosalind, including Sarah Wayne Callies, Maggie Smith, Elisabeth Bergner, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Helen Mirren, Patti LuPone, Helen McCrory, Bryce Dallas Howard, Adrian Lester and ...
Touchstone is a fictional character in Shakespeare's play As You Like It. He is a court Jester, he was used throughout the play to both provide comic relief through sometimes vulgar humor and contrarily share wisdom, [1] fitting the archetype of the Shakespearean fool. Oftentimes, he acts as a character who foils his surroundings, observing and ...
Jonathan Bate, in his The Genius of Shakespeare (2008), considers the case for both Lanier and Luce, before suggesting his own "pleasing fancy" that the unnamed, "low-born", but "witty and talented" wife of Italian linguist John Florio (and sister of poet Samuel Daniel) [13] [14] was the Dark Lady, the lover of not only Shakespeare but also of ...
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.
Queen Margaret is a fairly epic character, one of the greatest in that respect in Shakespeare. She appears as a naive girl in Henry VI, Part 1 and as an embittered old woman in Richard III. She is a central character of the two intervening plays, Henry VI, Part 2 and Henry VI, Part 3, in which she is the wife of Henry VI and a leader of his ...