Over 400 years ago, during the times of the Elizabethan Era, lived the greatest dramatist in the English Language. His great works of playwright and inspiring words of poetry made him one of the most widely known authors in England. William Shakespeare was a man of great talent writing 38 plays and 154 sonnets in his lifetime. He was born on April 23rd in the year of 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon and died 52 years later on the same date. Before he decided to spend the rest of his life writing, he was educated at a basic grammar school in Stratford, known as King’s New School where he was educated in Latin grammar and classics(shakespeareonline). His education helped him later in life become the great writer as we know him today.
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Shakespeare makes it a point to show gender traits throughout the play by having Theseus compare the moon to a greedy stepdame or widow spending a young man or her son's inheritance. There is also a great deal of gender tension between Hermia and her father Egeus when Egeus demands, “as she is mine, I may dispose of her(1.1.43). As previously said, men especially fathers had complete control over their daughter's marriage arrangement. It is at this point where the audience sees how females are treated as property in society. This also give us a glimpse of how powerful upper class noblemen were in society.
In Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, most of the classes of society are defiantly shown, but are characterized into classes of royalty such as the Duke Theseus, Hippolyta, Oberon, and Titania, Nobility such as Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, and Egeus, and commoners such as the Mechanicals and craftsmen. Shakespeare presents examples of social power in the play when Puck says to Oberon, “I jest to Oberon and make him smile(2.1.46). Puck, being in a lower class than King Oberon, is required upon the king's orders to jest him whenever he may need it. Also shown in the play, the Dukes party planner Philostrate says to Theseus about the
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Shakespeare makes it a point to show gender traits throughout the play by having Theseus compare the moon to a greedy stepdame or widow spending a young man or her son's inheritance. There is also a great deal of gender tension between Hermia and her father Egeus when Egeus demands, “as she is mine, I may dispose of her(1.1.43). As previously said, men especially fathers had complete control over their daughter's marriage arrangement. It is at this point where the audience sees how females are treated as property in society. This also give us a glimpse of how powerful upper class noblemen were in society.
In Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, most of the classes of society are defiantly shown, but are characterized into classes of royalty such as the Duke Theseus, Hippolyta, Oberon, and Titania, Nobility such as Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, and Egeus, and commoners such as the Mechanicals and craftsmen. Shakespeare presents examples of social power in the play when Puck says to Oberon, “I jest to Oberon and make him smile(2.1.46). Puck, being in a lower class than King Oberon, is required upon the king's orders to jest him whenever he may need it. Also shown in the play, the Dukes party planner Philostrate says to Theseus about the