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father-daughter relationships(in comedies): the issue of betrayal

HI...i'm trying to construct an essay exploring the concept of patriarchal betrayal in the comedies As You Like It and A Midsummer's Night's Dream...it will also explore similarities and differences in these two plays. Also--did Shakespeare have reason to have negative feelings towards women? It seems that many of his female characters have little concept of loyalty? Especially to their fathers?
eg: Rosalind & Celia, Desdemona, Helena (AMND), Ophelia, etc.

Posted by dedee on March 31, 1997 at 11:44:52


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