Are women human? That is basically what man is stating when he says that women are not legally people once they are married. Society gave more rights to animals than they did to women. Women were not allowed to keep anything, property and money, they were given- they had to give it to the man of the house.
While there has never been an female Shakespeare, there were female playwrights during the time of Shakespeare. In my 450 Renaissance Drama class we are reading two plays written by women in that time, they were famous playwrights during the Renaissance yet Shakespeare became so popular that every other playwright got overshadowed by his "greatness." Women writers were frowned upon; anything that allowed women access to the outside life was frowned upon. Access would corrupt their views and and would cause them to run sexually wild. Men were afraid that they wouldn't have control over their women anymore. It was all about control...
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