Papers by Marybeth McDonough
Even 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare’s legacy continues to amaze the world. Shakes... more Even 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare’s legacy continues to amaze the world. Shakespeare's command of characterization through human emotion and language is perhaps best studied through his revealing parent-child relationships. For the majority of his works, Shakespeare steered clear of mothers and daughters, but in Romeo and Juliet (1595) and The Winter's Tale (1610), he uses this type of relationship to shed light on historical change in early modern England and to create dynamic female characters. In addition to the mothers and daughters within the respective plays, Shakespeare throws in a game changer: a mother figure, one who factors into the dynamic of the mother/daughter relationship and directly affects the outcome of the plays in question. The creation of these female characters covering a span of 15 years serves to illustrate the changes that were relevant to both England as a country and Shakespeare as a writer.
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Drafts by Marybeth McDonough