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Redefining Virtue In Shakespeare's Merry Wives Of Windsor, Melissa Rose Piccinonno May 2017

Redefining Virtue In Shakespeare's Merry Wives Of Windsor, Melissa Rose Piccinonno

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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.

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