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30 Days of Shakespeare - Day 4
Jul. 21st, 2010 11:54 pmDay #4 - Your favourite heroine
I'm not sure that I would say that there are a lot of heroines in Shakespeare. I suppose![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
angevin2 makes a good point about Helena in All's Well, but there are a lot of sticky issues in that play that make me disinclined to choose her. Margaret in the Henry VIs is fun, but not at all heroic. I'm extremely partial to Kate, Lady Percy, Hotspur's wife in the Henry IVs, but I'm not at all convinced that she's a heroine. Can't really see calling Cleopatra or Cressida heroines... I guess I'm going to go with Paulina in Winter's Tale. She stands up to the king for what she thinks is right and enacts the happy ending.
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I'm not sure that I would say that there are a lot of heroines in Shakespeare. I suppose
angevin2 makes a good point about Helena in All's Well, but there are a lot of sticky issues in that play that make me disinclined to choose her. Margaret in the Henry VIs is fun, but not at all heroic. I'm extremely partial to Kate, Lady Percy, Hotspur's wife in the Henry IVs, but I'm not at all convinced that she's a heroine. Can't really see calling Cleopatra or Cressida heroines... I guess I'm going to go with Paulina in Winter's Tale. She stands up to the king for what she thinks is right and enacts the happy ending.( Full List of Topics )
