I think Shakespeare adapted female roles dependant on the genre of the play as it would help accentuate certain themes and aspects within the script. The female roles could usually be related to the social normalities of the sexes within Shakespeare’s time as women were stereotypically below men in the social hierarchy and most of William Shakespeare’s plays conform to this but at the same time challenge aspects of it. His plays portray women as having a sense of high wilfulness with an attempt to challenge the social norm of topics such as arranged marriages, being seen as males object without self-ambition and higher goals than being a wife and mother to suitor with the best hierarchy status. Therefore in that sense Shakespeare writes the
