Shakespeare was a gifted writer, he could write multiple different genres from romance to tragedy to history to comedy. However each genre had its own way of blurring the lines of gender. It seemed that with each genre Shakespeare wrote it had its own set of rules and methods for how gender was displayed. Drama told the stories of how women were becoming equal to that of men. Instead of just being seen as housewives who rely on their husband to care and provide for them, they were becoming business women. Drama both honoured these developments and changes to women’s society, but also detailed patriarchy's fear and resentment towards it. Comedy had women dominating the action, this would seem funny as women didn’t have power in Elizabethan
