Shakespeare’s Sister in Virginia Woolf’s Discourse
Words: 623 Pages: 2 2658Misogyny and the Plight of Women in the Arts: Woolf's "Shakespeare's Sister" In “Shakespeare’s Sister,” author Virginia Woolf examines the misogynistic world in which women, particularly those in the arts, were forced to live and endure during the years prior and leading up to the early twentieth century. She uses the questions, “... why no woman wrote a word of that extraordinary literature when every other man, it seemed, was capable of song or sonnet. What were the conditions in […]
