Comments on: The Most Powerful Shakespeare Female Characters

By: Jeannie Gee

Jeannie Gee — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 01:23:00 +0000

In reply to Sam. I agree Sam... I hadn't read your message before posting much the same below (though not quite so articulately!)

By: Jeannie Gee

Jeannie Gee — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 07:51:38 +0000

Emilia (Lago’ wife and Desdemona’s maid) in Othello.
She nails with her speech beginning: “But I do think it is their husbands’ faults If wives do fall:… “

By: Keira

Keira — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:19:04 +0000

I felt that both the women in Hamlet (Gertrude and Ofelia) were caught up in the man’s world and easily manipulated by those around them. It isn’t by the end of the play that you finally see the strength of Gertrude when she listens to the heartbreak of her son and begins to follow his lead, doing as she pleases without the consent of the king, her husband, but like all Shakespearean plays, she dies. I was annoyed with Gertrude at the beginning but sympathised and liked her by the end as she was simply following her heart. Now, Ofelia, poor poor beautiful Ofelia is but a pawn and played around by the men she loves dearly, Hamlet and her father, Polonius. She was innocence personified and did not deserve the ill-treatment she received, although she shouldn’t be dismissed so quickly as she does have some moments of quick wit and retaliations with Hamlet which I believe if the grief and thirst of revenge didn’t take over Hamlet would have become a strong, lasting union. Is Ofelia portrayed as weak because she goes crazy by the end? Is Gertrude weak because she is ignorant of what is happening around her and caught in the lust of the king? Are they portrayed as typical women of the Elizabethan Age?

By: Lance

Lance — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 06:53:35 +0000

I kinda like Audrey in As You Like It. She spins Touchstone like a top.

By: Lord Pete

Lord Pete — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 23:10:49 +0000

In reply to Moulinski. I was going to point out Isabella. She's charismatic.

By: Timothy Sexton

Timothy Sexton — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 06:59:55 +0000

In reply to Moulinski. I was going to nominate her until I saw you already did it. I think she is truly one of the Bard's great underappreciated creations.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 11:55:47 +0000

In reply to Fortinbras. You have a valid point!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 11:55:14 +0000

In reply to Fortinbras. You both have valid point!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 11:53:35 +0000

In reply to Susan Carroll. Yes. Agree! Katherine, the “ bonniest Kate that ever lived”

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 11:52:22 +0000

In reply to Sam. Absolutely!Brilliant!!