Within Shakespearean times it was a patriarchal society where women were dominated by men this meant that women's roles were played by males in most of Shakespeare's work. I feel that Shakespeare had to alter the female roles depending on what genre they play was. For example if the genre was comedy them females would have a rather big role as some of the time the men playing females were shown as quite pantomime looking back and this would add to the comedy of the play. However during these times the dominant society meant that people had strong vewis on things such as marriage and who had the most power so withing a dramatic play I feel that Shakespeare would have to alter the female role to try and get a message across in a way that doesn't
