Poor women do not fit easily into the household in Shakespeare.
They shift in and out of marriages, households, and employments,
carrying messages, tallying bills, and making things happen; never
the main character but always evoking the ever-present problem of
female poverty in early modern England. Like the illegal farthings
that carried their likenesses, poor women both did and did not fit
into the household and marriage market. They were both essential to
and excluded from the economy. They are both present and absent on
the early modern stage. In the drama, they circulate between plots,
essential because they are so mobile, but largely unnoticed because
of their mobility. These female characters represent an exploration
of gender and economic roles at the bottom, as England shifted from
feudalism to empire in the span of Shakespeare's lifetime. We find
their dramas played out in the plays of Shakespeare and his
contemporaries.
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