Paradoxically, it is forgotten by the audience in Shakespeare in Love, that the patriarchal society is in fact led by a woman - Queen Elizabeth - and it is in this ignorance and lack of her power to change circumstances that the powerlessness of women is exemplified in the film (Author Unknown, 2006). ... This theory is stabilised via many of his female characters such as Lady Macbeth and Gertrude in Hamlet, as according to Dall (2000): "Through Gertrude's marriage to Hamlet's uncle and also through Lady Macbeth's unbridled political ambition, Shakespeare dramatizes real p...

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