This site talks about the portrayal of women within Shakespeare's work, and how it lead to the portrayal of women within other contexts.

Shakespeare's unruly women

This site gives an extract from: Selected Writings of John Knox: Public Epistles, Treatises, and Expositions to the Year 1559, and shows the gender roles of women in relation to men and the church.

The Monstrous Regiment of Women

This source shows the figure of the impudent woman in the context of the culture of this time. It talks about the Carnival and tries to elucidate how women experienced and interpreted it.

Impudent Women: Carnival and Gender

The human race and the tendency to define themselves in relation to the “other” is what this site deals with. The witch craze not only prosecuted the “other” but specifically targeted the witch because witches represent women. This site relates the witch craze to that of being a hunt against women not only witches.

The “Other”: Women and Witchcraft

This site provides various texts on the different writings of women within this period and how they dealt with the issues of gender.

Women’s Writing

This is the main page that provides links to various subjects relating to women within literature.

Women within Literature

This site looks at a feminist perspective of Shakespears plays and analyzes the role of women within this period and how it was portryed onto literature.

Feminist view of Shakespeare