Semiotics is a vital and key instrument in the analysis and understanding of performance, and the connotations surrounding it for a specific culture or social group. ... The notion of a woman's duty to her husband and family has been replaced by her duty to herself - thus forcing us to interpret the play and characters within it in an entirely different light. ... For example, Shakespeare's London was a direct representation of life in Jacobean/Elizabethan England in terms of the ideology inflicted upon the characters and expressed through the text. ... The downfall of the p...

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