Shakespearean Matriarchy in the 21st Century
Shakespearean Matriarchy in the 21st Century

Author(s): Shahab Yar Khan
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, British Literature
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«
Keywords: Shakespeare; Matriarchy; Female Energy; Rosalind; Cordelia;
Summary/Abstract: Women are the central force of his drama and especially in the works he composed after 1598, Shakespeare brings forth the female energy to occupy the center-stage. This device helped ‘Shakespearean women’ to set themselves free from the subjection to the male energy otherwise dominating the stage and outside the theater preached vehemently by the clergy. Theatrically dominating the center was psychologically equivalent to the reshaping of the female mind and feminine virtue. Consequently, what we see as readers or members of an audience in the personae of Rosalind or Cordelia for instance, is the model and the forecast of a matriarchal system.

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