Date of Award
Spring 5-5-2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Cristina Leon Alfar
Second Advisor
Janet Neary
Academic Program Adviser
Amy Robbins
Abstract
Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor is a play of social justice. It is a staging of the type of power that women can harness in spaces of extreme limitation and violation. The female characters in this play, specifically Mistress Page and Mistress Ford, are able to use tools of oppression meant to keep them subordinate to men to achieve their personal objectives.
Recommended Citation
Piccinonno, Melissa Rose, "Redefining Virtue in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor" (2017). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/171
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