Conclusion
After paying attention at the relationship between men and women in Shakespeare’s comedies, we can observe that what makes innovative the Shakespearean plays was the way in which he presented women. It is the female characters’ behavior the fact that forces the conflicts and the happy endings.
But, why did Shakespeare change the stereotyped image of women in his comedies? Although his works are framed by the patriarchal society ideals, the behavior of women is not the supposed one. Maybe it was a technique to catch audience’s attention and provoke laugh since, for them, the presented situations in which a woman rebels against the male authority could be considered absurd. However, Queen Elisabeth herself was a symbol for women’s freedom, and it is possible that Shakespeare wanted to show Elizabethan society that women could have a place in the social life.