While As You Like It and Twelfth Night presents common Elizabethan notions of what
it means to be male and female, it also makes an important point about the
intelligence and capability of women by portraying clever and powerful girls who
are capable of holding their own in a man's world.
By giving these women power and intelligence, Shakespeare reminds us
that although his contemporaries assume that men and women fulfill
certain stereotypes, both genders are more than capable of superseding those
limitations in order to attain their goals.
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