“Women’s Roles Have Changed So Much Since Shakespheare Wrote ‘the Taming of the Shrew’ That It Is No Longer Dramatically Interesting To a Modern Audience.”

... Women's roles have changed these past four hundred or so years - it's a fact. Women can now vote in an election; own their own land; marry whomever they wish (depending on religion); eat, drink and sleep when they wish; go out when they wish; they can be educated in the same subjects as boys; they can wear what they like, and even have sex with who they like (again - depending on religion). In Elizabethan times, when Shakespeare put pen to paper to write The Taming of the Shrew, women were forbidden to do most, if not all these things. From birth, they didn't have a 'father' so much, but an 'owner', and when it was time for the 'father' to marry off his daughter, she then became the 'property' of the husband. The woman forfeited all dowries unto her husband, and she would never have been allowed to

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