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  2. Category:Female Shakespearean characters - Wikipedia

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  3. Women in Shakespeare's works - Wikipedia

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    Women in Shakespeare is a topic within the especially general discussion of Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works. Main characters such as Dark Lady of the sonnets have elicited a substantial amount of criticism, which received added impetus during the second-wave feminism of the 1960s.

  4. Abigail Thorn - Wikipedia

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    Abigail Thorn (born 24 April 1993) is an English YouTuber, actress, and playwright. [2] [3]Thorn created the YouTube channel Philosophy Tube in 2013, when she sought to provide free lessons in philosophy in the wake of the 2012 increase in university tuition fees in England.

  5. Why weren't women allowed to act in Shakespeare's plays? - AOL

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    – Anastasia, Herdon, Virginia, 15 The role of Desdemona, the devoted, loving wife murdered by her husband in “Othello,” wasn’t performed by a woman until 1660 – about six decades after ...

  6. Rosalind (As You Like It) - Wikipedia

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    Rosalind is the heroine and protagonist of the play As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare.In the play, she disguises herself as a male shepherd named Ganymede. Many actors have portrayed Rosalind, including Sarah Wayne Callies, Maggie Smith, Elisabeth Bergner, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Helen Mirren, Patti LuPone, Helen McCrory, Bryce Dallas Howard, Adrian Lester and ...

  7. Mary Cowden Clarke - Wikipedia

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    While at Nice, Cowden-Clarke published World-noted Women, or Types of Womanly Attributes of all Lands and all Ages (New York City, 1858). In 1860, she issued Shakespeare's Works, edited with a scrupulous revision of the text (New York and London), and in 1864, The Life and Labours of Vincent Novello. During the preceding year, she and her ...

  8. List of Shakespearean characters (L–Z) - Wikipedia

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    Not being "born of woman", he fights on Malcolm's side at the end of the play, and kills Macbeth. Lady Macduff, wife to Macduff, is murdered, with her children, in Macbeth. Macduff's Son is murdered on Macbeth's orders. Macmorris (fict) is an Irish captain in Henry V. He is said to be Shakespeare's only Irish character.

  9. Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing) - Wikipedia

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    Beatrice is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing.In the play, she is the niece of Leonato and the cousin of Hero.Atypically for romantic heroines of the sixteenth century, she is feisty and sharp-witted; these characteristics have led some scholars to label Beatrice a protofeminist character.