Midsummer Night's Dream Gender

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream centers on shaky gender norms and confusing love objects. Primarily adopting a Greek setting, the play concentrates on some deviant fairies, a group of inexperienced actors and four lovers from Athens. The elves launch into puzzling everyone and everything by casting a spell on the actors and the four lovers. Scholars have since then questioned Shakespeare’s thinking and the motive behind his writing of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Louis Adrian Montrose argues that Shakespeare’s thinking was influenced by the fact that Britain at that time was under the leadership of a woman – Queen Elizabeth I. Before the formation of the NBC, the British Empire existed in the 16th Century and was under another

From Forman’s dream to A Midsummer Night’s Dream using Elizabethan depictions of Amazons, Montrose correlates the dogmatic and political reliance on men during the Elizabethan era on her Majesty – Queen Elizabeth I. Keep in mind, however, that Montrose assert that although the term [Amazon(s)] were appropriate for an Elizabethan woman with power, the term was also equally unpopular among the public due to its ominousness in relation to the political interests of the Queen (Montrose 76). Meanwhile, Montrose describes the biological reliance of men on women as nurses – in times of war, and as mothers – for bringing up families, to the cultural illusions and fantasies he see’s represented in the play:
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream dramatizes a set of claims which are repeated through Shakespeare’s canon: claims for a spiritual kinship among men that is unmediated by women; for the procreative powers of men; and for the autogeny of men” (Montrose

In this play, mothers are conspicuously left out of the dramatis personae of Shakespeare’s play; similar to the threats of matriarchy was silently inhibited by the celebrations of the virginity of Queen Elizabeth I. The conceivable likelihood that power might potentially be handed over from mother to daughter was obscured from aged women through such poetic and cultural production as the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in which Queen Elizabeth I was an eager collaborator as much by her resolve to remain barren and unwed as by her “cultural