The concept of "Women Behaving Badly" must vary according to time period, culture, gender and authorial purpose.
             Discuss in relation to Lysistrata and Wife of Bath Prologue and Tale.
             Through the texts Lysistrata, by Aristophanes, and the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, by Chaucer, there is the underlying concept of "Women Behaving Badly", the concept of women acting out of place in society.
             The concept of women behaving badly is appropriated and varied to suit both texts, according to the time period, culture, authorial purpose and gender. However the 'must' in the discussion question above, is questionable, as there may be eternal and invariable standards, ideas, and expectations.
             There is no such thing as women behaving badly, and rather it is women seen as behaving badly; and whether a woman is seen as behaving badly will depend on the audience, and their ideas, which are affected by factors including time period, culture, gender and authorial purpose.
             Examples of this are seen in Lysistrata, and the Wife of Bath, where the concept of "women behaving badly" is appropriated to suit the audience of the times.
             Lysistrata, set in 5th century BC Greek society, shows how one woman can go against the social standards of ancient Greek society, and lead a force of women to stop the long and ongoing war that Greece was fighting in.
             In Lysistrata we can see how the concept of women behaving badly is appropriated to suit the time period, culture, and authorial purpose.
             In it, Aristophanes appropriated the concept of women behaving badly by making the character of Lysistrata, do something that would be unthinkable for woman in that time period and culture. In the time period of 5th century BC Greece, women were seen as simply sex-crazy creatures that could not do anything of importance let alone stop a war. Yet Lysistrata did this, and by doing this, became a woman behaving ba...