Some of the most interesting female characters in Shakespeare's writing are Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Viola and Olivia in Twelfth Night, and Gertrude, the Queen of Denmark and Hamlet's mother, in Hamlet. ... In A Midsummer Night's Dream, the reader recognizes right away that Hermia is not ordinary woman. ... "I know not by what power I am made bold," Hermia begins thoughtfully but not tentatively, "But I beseech your grace that I may know the worst that may befall me in this case.... Until this early point in the play, Hermia is an admirable and ev...

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