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The reigning monarch during much of shakespeare and his sister's life was queen elizabeth - a woman.
by dagoodnews 3y ago
The reigning monarch during much of shakespeare and his sister's life was queen elizabeth - a woman.
- krapp 3y agoYes, and of course all of the rights and social privileges which applied to the monarchy applied likewise to everyone else, and thus all women during the Elizabethan era were precisely as free as Elizabeth herself.
- dagoodnews 3y ago[flagged]
- krapp 3y agoMy apologies. I keep keep forgetting people here are incapable of detecting sarcasm. Your perspective is skewed. Virginia Woolf lived in the 20th century, and the Elizabethan period ended a few centuries before she was born. You can't use Virginia Woolf to prove anything about gender norms in the Elizabethan period, much less compare the norms between royal, noble and common women during Shakespeare's time. Just putting things into perspective, here.
- dagoodnews 3y ago[flagged]
- mootothemax 3y agoAnd the most famous line from her most famous speech is… ?
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- sandspar 3y agoThe most famous line from Henry the VIII's speech is? They didn't give speeches back then because they didn't give a fuck about the public.
- donalm 3y ago“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too” https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/queen-elizabeth-speech-troops-tilbury https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/queen-elizabeth-speech-...
- pyuser583 3y agoBetween Elizabeth I, Catherine Di Medici, Roxalana of Turkey, and Mary Queen of Scots, female rulers were unusually common. Female writers were unusually rare.