Gender And Gender Roles In The Elizabethan Era

William Shakespeare was born in the Elizabethan era also known as the golden age in English history. This age is mostly known as the time of Shakespeare and the reign of Elizabeth I, who was Queen of England, It is also known as a time of political stability that proceeded eras of extensive upheaval. Maya Angelou was born in an era known as the digital age. This is a time when people have moved from more traditional ways of doing things to the Industrial Uprising brought through development, to an economy grounded on information and computerization.
William Shakespeare was born in a time where marrying for love was considered to be a foolish decision, family members thought they knew more on who was right for the specific individual and the …show more content…
Gender roles were very important during this era. You can obviously see a gender bias where women are the minority in the community with little right and minimal access to practically everything including themselves in the Elizabethan era. It was so common to have female poets, the few that were educated would write prayers, confessions, diaries, and letters. The middle-class women wrote on subjects ranging from religion to motherhood and social commentary.
Love was forbidden and those who did things in the name of love faced consequences such as disownment or death, which made meeting up and physically being together the most important thing. Unlike the seventeenth century the twenty first century is unquestionably dissimilar in a number of cases but similar in others. For instance in some parts of the world for example India and Africa today most people still have arranged marriages or marry for social standing. Marrying at a young age is no longer done anywhere around the world mainly because of child rights law and women’s rights have inspired gender equality meaning gender stereotyping has been massively reduced compared to the Elizabethan