Does Shakespeare present Lady Macbeth as subverting feminine stereotypes of the Jacobean era or conforming to them?
Sources used:
‘On The Character of Lady Macbeth, by Dr Emil Pfundheller, 1873
‘The Woman’s Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare’, Joan Larsen Klein
‘Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender’, Elizabeth Klett
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