Gender Roles in Shakespeare

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Through the mechanisms of exaggeration or transgression, Shakespeare's comedies focus attention on the matter of gender and derive comedy from the situations created. Characters that are natural representations of their gender do not contain the same possibilities for comedy...
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Characters that are natural representations of their gender do not contain the same possibilities for comedy. Beatrice says "O, that I were a man" (Much Ado About Nothing, IV.i.303), implying in context that her gender has made it impossible for her to act...
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