Subject : 14159 Curso
Monográfico de Literatura Inglesa Grupo B
Student´s name : Más Agrás, Julia
WOMEN IN
SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDIES
o INTRODUCTION
1. HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND: THE ROLE OF WOMEN DURING ELIZABETHAN AGE.
1.1 Typical Elizabethan women in
Shakespeare’s plays
Mistress
Page and Mistress Ford
(The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Helena
and Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Bianca
(The Taming of the Shrew)
Hero
(Much Ado about Nothing)
1.2. Extraordinary women in
Shakespeare’s plays
Katherine
(The Taming of the Shrew)
Beatrice
(Much Ado about Nothing)
Titania ( A Midsummer Night’s
Dream)
2. DISGUISE AND
HOMOEROTICISM
Jessica,
Portia and Nerissa (The Merchant of Venice)
Viola
(Twelfth Night)
Rosalind
(As You Like It)
3. EROTISM
Titania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Mistress
Quirckly (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
4. WOMEN RIVARLY.
Bianca
vs. Catherine
Rosalind
vs. Celia
Beatrice vs. Hero
Adriana vs. Luciana
Titania vs. Hyppolita
Olivia vs. Viola
Helena vs. Hermia
o CONCLUSION
o BIBLIOGRAPHY
Production Team components: Isabel Latorre, Vanessa Lorite,
Xihong Liu, Julia Más,
Rosana Torres, Vita Korolevych, Daria LaBarbera, Gabriele Neuditschko.
Auto-evaluation: I think I
should obtain a good mark on the grounds that I studied the comedies very hard
in order to develop very complete essays.
Academic year 2006/2007
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Julia Más Agrás
jumasa@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press