Affirmation of the Gendered Stereotypes in William Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Gender and Feminist Critique
Affirmation of the Gendered Stereotypes in William Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Gender and Feminist Critique -Rajan Gautam This essay reads William Shakespeare's Hamlet taking the basic insights from the Gender and Feminist Criticism which hold a view that "patriarchal ideology pervades those writings which have been traditionally considered great literature" (Abrams, 89), and that literary texts use the recurrent images and stereotypes that need to be identified and analyzed so as to understand the ideology of the time. Shakespeare's Hamlet also abounds with these stereotypes and images. My contention is that Shakespeare subscribes to the sexism of the age b...