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xoxcgibsonxox
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High School - 10th Grade

What was the Role Of Women in Shakespeare's time?

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Posted by xoxcgibsonxox on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 11:52 AM and tagged with as you like it, shakespeare.

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  1. bondyboii
    bondyboii Student
    High School - 9th Grade

    lol this is my h/w too, i havent got much and im doing the same as you but what ive got is they were inferior to men, taught to cook and clean, only rich ones went to school,they didnt decide who they married. thats all i got :S

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    Posted by bondyboii on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 12:40 PM

  2. ro0ster1
    ro0ster1 Student
    High School - 10th Grade

    In Shakespeare's time, women were not treated humanely but more like sex objects and called claccsons . Men were seen as the superior sex of which had complete control over women and could marry who ever they wanted. The women had no say in who they married. Basically the two sexes were not treated equally. Also women could not go to school, but had to stay at home to cook and clean. Men could also bet on the behaviour of their wives to see which is the 'tamest'. Obviously a lot has changed since Shakespearian times and men and women are now treated equally and have the same rights as each other. SOURCE: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_the_roles_of_women_in_Shakespeare's_time
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    Posted by ro0ster1 on Friday April 24, 2009 at 6:25 AM

  3. ro0ster1
    ro0ster1 Student
    High School - 10th Grade

    The 1600s were a time marked by the Scientific Revolution. During this time, women were treated as inferior being who were meant to tend to the house and tend to children. During this time, a centuries-long debate known as the Querreles des Femmes was occurring in which men argued that women were not capable of higher thinking because their skulls were smaller. They also said that because women's hips were wider, they were naturally meant to be mothers and not to be involved in scientific affairs. Overall, women were treated with little dignity and as intellectually inferior to their male counterparts. They were also not aloud to go to the theater and or act on the stage.

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    Posted by ro0ster1 on Friday April 24, 2009 at 6:29 AM

  4. sagoddess
    sagoddess

    Here is a site http://www.elizabethi.org/us/women/. 

    I would like to speak about marriage in that time.  Children had no say in who they married.  Even the son's have no choice but to marry the woman that his father had picked out.  In other words the father's arrange marriages for their children to increase their property, station, and or weath.  Children were a means to ensure that.

     

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    http://www.elizabethi.org/us/women/

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    Posted by sagoddess on Sunday May 24, 2009 at 12:37 PM

  5. kingkhan911
    kingkhan911 Student
    High School - 9th Grade

    The wright answer is Man, man played the role of women is shakespear's time .

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    Posted by kingkhan911 on Friday October 23, 2009 at 1:02 PM