Elizabethan England Women

Being a woman in the Elizabethan era was extremely tough as they were treated as objects and only married men that profited their Father. This has all changed very dramatically since that era.This is shown very well in the texts that we have studied this term. (“The Taming Of the Shrew”, and “Ten Things I Hate About You”). In The Taming of the Shrew, this was very evident as Baptista, the girl's Father, gave Petrucio, a very ostentatious man, a reasonable dowry to try to “tame” Katherina, the extremely opinionated daughter. Ironically, her sister is the kind of woman who would have been considered the perfect bride as she was loyal, quiet and did what she was told. Being male in these days meant that you were expected to have money, influence

In the sixteenth century the role of women in society was very limited. Women were generally stereotyped as housewives and mothers. They were to be married, living their life providing for her husband and children. The patriarchal values of the Elizabethan times regarded women as the weaker sex.’ Men were considered the dominant gender and were treated with the utmost respect by females. Women were mainly restricted within the confines of their homes and were not allowed to go school or to university, but they could be educated at home by private tutors. Men were said to be the ones to provide for their families financially. Women were often seen as not intelligent. Property could not be titled in the name of a female within the family. Legally everything the female had belonged to her husband. Poor and middle class wives were kept very busy but rich women were not idle either. In a big house they had to organize and supervise the servants.

Life was not easy for women and children in the middle ages. We have abusive spouse and such in today’s time period, but in the Middle Ages abuse was even encouraged “as a way to keep women under control” (Lawler). The children had it worse. The children of the Middle Ages, were abused by men, women and even servants to make them behave. In the Middle Ages, the law did not intervene. If you were a woman of upper class then you were lucky! They typical did not go through the abuse that the lower-class women did. As long as a man didn’t kill his wife during the abuse, he wasn’t doing anything wrong according to the Canon law. (Lawler)

Gender expectations limited personal choice to a great extent during the Elizabethan Era. The Elizabethan Era was the period in which Elizabeth I ruled England from 1558-1603. There was a strong view on women should be the property of men and must obey them. William Shakespeare influenced this time period massively and incorporated the different gender roles and expectations into his plays. Personal is defined as something concerning one's private life, relationships, and emotions rather than one's career or public life. Choice is defined as an act of choosing between two or more possibilities. Therefore personal choice can be seen as how someone chooses to life their personal life; whether that be the relationships formed or

During the Elizabethan times, there were many issues facing common people and William Shakespeare. An important issue that played a part in everyday life for Elizabethans, whether rich or poor, was the difference between men and women. Gender roles have been debated throughout history and are changing everyday. Although modern American gender roles are much more defined and different than Elizabethan times, if Shakespeare were to live today, his writing would have been very different.

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to three, quoted by the famous playwright William Shakespeare. Never has this been so true in the two films Taming of the shrew and 10 things I hate about you. Femininity has changed dramatically between the elizabethan era and today's era this change is displayed greatly in both tammy of the shrew and 10 things i hate about you. Today the women of the world are not known to up hold the man to be the lord of the house and to obey by his word but to show respect to the man of the house as the man is to show the same amount of respect or even more to the women of the house. In today's world both the man and women are both as equal in the way that they share the

Every single human being, at some point in their life, has had a role model. When Queen Elizabeth was at the peak of her rule, she was a huge role model for many women across the nation. She ruled a prominently male dominant society. Women like Beatrice, strong and independent, were not common. The more normal example of a women of those days would be Hero. Hero is a quiet character who does what she is told. Beatrice, when this play was first written, was found comedic. In contrast to today, Beatrice is respected as a strong women. Shakespeare uses Beatrice’s independence to contrast Hero’s obedience and toys with the social standards of the Elizabethan society to make his play the one of the best comedies of his time.

During the Elizabethan Era, gender role was a big thing. Every man knew his role and his class and every woman knew her role. When Shakespeare was writing, the gender expectation was that a woman should serve and obey to her husband. If a man told a woman to do something, then it was her job to fully submit to him. When women do not obey their husband, they get punished.

Why were women in the Elizabethan era treated so much different in the Elizabethan era? A very broad question, with many answers to it and many reasons too. As a student in 2017, I was shocked to hear how many women were treated many years ago. The things all women had to put up with in the Elizabethan era is dehumanizing to say the least. The role of women was to listen to men and let the men rule over them, but this was because they knew no better.

Power and ascension to a throne always comes with a price as many have opposing views due to tradition, religion, and values. After Henry VIII’s rule of England came to an end with his death, a struggle of power was imposed, as his three children would later succeed him as rulers to impact England. Primogeniture allowed Edward VI to rule, but after his death, older sister Mary I claimed the throne. Lastly Elizabeth I claimed the throne as the last Tudor monarch and in the long run, bringing success and a golden age of England with her. With Elizabeth’s rise to the throne, ruling from 1558-1603, came strong influences of gender on her reign and affected her responses to them.

Life during the Elizabeth Era men were more respected in society than women. Women during the Elizabeth Era were raised to believe that they were inferior to men. Depending on your social class, determined your role in society. Women weren’t allowed to vote along with the men from lower social classes. Women who were born into the upper class were afforded the right to an education, compared to women of the lower class who were not.

Throughout European history, women have struggled endlessly to become the intellectual and social equals of their male counterparts. After hundreds of years of physical labor, housekeeping, child rearing and many other difficult tasks, women’s attitudes about their place in life began to change. In the last few years of the eighteenth century (after tough and troubled decades) possible beginnings of early women’s rights were born when society began to evaluate the education and potential of women as a social class.

From having social classes to not allowing gender equality, life in the Elizabethan era was different.

As you like it, play written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in 1623 the play setting at France court, but the most of it in Ardenne forest.

Defining what a female was supposed to be and do was an act of Renaissance culture. For most of Renaissance society, women represented the following virtues which, importantly, having their meaning in relation to the male; obedience, silence, sexual chastity, piety, humility, constancy, and patience. The most important being sexual chastity and piety.