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Women In Shakespear
for an actress as, apart from being one of the central characters within the main plot of the play; she displays great wit and intelligence. These are assets which none of ShakespeareЎЇs other female roles ever had as women who lived around the same time as Shakespeare, were not considered to have such honorable traits.
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