Female transgression in Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women

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Evil, sinful, weak, and lover of Satan are just a few adjectives used to describe women throughout history and the Jacobean age is no exception. During the Jacobean age, a time in which women were thought to be incomplete human beings, soulless, and mere possessions of men, various women dare to challenge the idea of their inferiority in society's views. That matter leads to their transgression.

The female issues and positions should have in a society convinced of her innate transgression are the chief among Thomas Middleton's concerns in his plays including Women Beware Women (1621). The aim of the study is to trace the cases of female transgression with its relation to society's views and male supremacy in Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women.

The study deals with the definition of female transgression and the character of woman in the Jacobean age on the one hand, and in Middleton's Women Beware Women on the other hand.

Then, it traces the female transgression which can be considered as a woman's refusal to submit to social norms and her attempt to achieve her goal by plotting and tricks.

Finally, the study refers to the reasons behind women's transgressive acts in this play. The study ends with Notes and a Bibliography.