The values in Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew are still evident in the teenflick 10 Things I Hate About You. There are three core values – the importance of marriage for love rather than convenience; the role of patriarchy in social structure; and the importance of money and so...

Does Shakespeare want us to think Katherina is really a shrew? Shakespeare was a writer ahead of his time; he presented Katherina to us as a very strong character despite the fact that she is a woman living in the Elizabethan times. Although she has a very strong personality, Shakespeare had to...

Throughout literature, feminists have given their literary criticism on countless novels, and have shown the equality, strength and determination of the female race. By criticizing novels, a certain respect is gained for women, by men and women alike. Feminism requires a certain persistence on diggi...