Audience Reactions and Attitudes to Much Ado About Nothing In "Much Ado About Nothing" Shakespeare captures many of the social standards in Elizabethan society whether they are fair or not. In Act 2 Scene 2 of the play‚ Don John plots to frame Hero and make it look like she has been unfaithful to her fiancée the night before they are due to marry. This then sparks outrage from the male characters‚ which in turn shows a male bias in their society. The way Hero’s father takes a mans word over hers
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I. Famous Elizabethans and their era Before speaking about Shakespeare it is very important to remember the famous Elizabethan and their era‚ by referring to what they did in literature and how they renewed literature. The famous Elizabethans were Christopher Marlowe‚ Edmund Spenser‚ Ben Johnson and Thomas Kyd. The first about who we will talk is Edmund Spenser (1522-1599)‚ who was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene‚ an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating
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During the Elizabethan era‚ women were often mistreated and believed to be inferior to men. Clearly‚ being dominated by all males was the practice of the day. Shakespeare‚ a distinguished English poet‚ playwright and actor‚ believed that women should have more power and obtain the ability to choose whom they wish to marry. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet‚ he provides a dramatic depiction of his viewpoint through the tragic heroine‚ Juliet Capulet. During the Elizabethan period‚ women had a very
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The Elizabethan View of Women Women in Elizabethan times had few rights or luxuries. Their entire lifestyles depended upon that of their husbands‚ picked out for them by their fathers. They had almost no say in their lives‚ and they were expected to be thankful for having someone to rule over them. This is made abundantly clear by Katherina ’s famous speech in 5.2.137-180 of The Taming of the Shrew. She compares a woman ’s proper devotion to her husband to that a subject owes a prince‚ saying that
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power over his household and what happens in his household. He expects his wife (Lady Capulet)‚ daughter (Juliet) and his servants to do exactly as he tells them. Shakespeare wrote in the Elizabethan age‚ so naturally he based most of his plays on the morals and social standards of the time. During the Elizabethan period noble women were expected to be married off to rich‚ socially acceptable men. Fathers choose the men they considered “suitable” for their daughters‚ aiming to marry them off to higher
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In Elizabethan times‚ garlands made of flowers were worn on special occasions such as weddings or celebrations‚ and Queen Elizabeth I was given bouquets of flowers from her admiring subjects. Just as red roses symbolize love‚ four-leaf clovers mean good luck‚ and mistletoe suggests holiday romance today‚ flowers also had meanings in the sixteenth century. In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet‚ Ophelia mentions several kinds of flowers and herbs and their meanings: * Pansies represent "thoughts." The English
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During this era when men and women get married they are expected to have children. They expect to have children because the children are expected to be the property of their parents and to give their parents all their respect. Also‚ not every family in the Elizabethan Era was wealthy‚ not all children had real toys. If you were a young girl who came from a less wealthy family you would have to play with a paper doll instead of a real doll. Boys during this time who came from a financially challenged
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towards different men in the two different scenes you have studied? 10th February 2012 Introduction Much ado nothing is a romantic Shakespeare play about two couples of lovers. The play is set in Messina‚ deep in the heart of Italy and is based in Elizabethan times. The lovers are namely; Claudio and Hero‚ Bennedick and Beatrice. Claudio is a noble Florentine count from Florence. Bennedick is a war hero from Padua. Both are honourable war heroes fighting for Don Pedro the prince of Aragon. Beatrice is
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perspective. A woman’s comprehension of the play Othello grants us to judge the distinctive social qualities and status of women in the Elizabethan society. Othello serves as a case to demonstrate the goals of the Elizabethan patriarchal society‚ the act of benefits in patriarchal community‚ and the concealment and limitation of feminism. According to Elizabethan or Shakespeare’s overall population based upon Renaissance feelings‚ women were inferred just to marry. As their single occupation‚ marriage
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