Women were treated like property, handed over because they were won by war, forced into a union with a man they did not choose but rather by their father, and punished if they disobeyed their husband. Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream does a great job in showing these issues. Life for upper class, Elizabethan women was not really a fulfilling one thus leaving the question, which other authors wrote works illustrating their difficult
Women were treated like property, handed over because they were won by war, forced into a union with a man they did not choose but rather by their father, and punished if they disobeyed their husband. Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream does a great job in showing these issues. Life for upper class, Elizabethan women was not really a fulfilling one thus leaving the question, which other authors wrote works illustrating their difficult