Need help with Shakespeare plays........?

Question

Do you think that shakespeare understood the psychology of men and women and the ways in which men and women relate to each other?

Reasons why

Answer 1

it was difficult to put female characters on the elizabethan stage. the morality laws at the time forbade women from being actors, so all the female parts had to be played by young boys. (the film 'shakespeare in love' shows how that worked out in practice.

because the female roles could be played only by boys, most of the playwrights of the period tried not to have too many women's parts in their plays. if you look at the plays of christopher marlowe, ben jonson, robert peele, or john webster you will find that many of their plays avoid featuring women as much as they can. female minor characters are very rare.

but shakespeare's plays are full of women. there is no shakespeare play without an important female lead, and in many of his plays the woman is the main character (measure for measure, cymbeline, as you like it).

shakespeare's audience would have been predominantly male, but there would also have been a large minority of women in the globe (pandarus in 'troilus and cressida' talks directly to the women in the audience). shakespeare needed to make his men and women on the stage believable, or the men and women in his audience would never have come to see his plays.

shakespeare was unpopular with the establishment at the start of his career (his plays were considered vulgar), and interestingly one of the first references we have to shakespeare appears to be attacking him for putting an important female role on the stage.

robert greene talks about an unnamed playwright being a 'tygers heart wrapt in a players hide' - which is an obvious parody of 'o tyger's heart wrapt in a woman's hide' - a line which shakespeare gives to queen margaret in henry vi.2

if robert greene (a playwright who was already established when shakespeare first appeared) was complaining about shakespeare putting woman characters on stage, we can be pretty sure that shakespeare was doing it very successfully.

(the greene quote is from 'greene's groatsworth of wit').

Answer 2

better than a trained psychologist. Shakespeare was a keen observer of the human condition and knew people better than anyone before or since. that is why his plays remain popular centuries after his death. the main reason for his understanding was that he was a genius.

Answer 3

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