Shakespeare's female characters were right because he wrote them for
prepubescent boys.
It's of course a dumb argument. When we write fiction presumably we're
writing characters profoundly different from ourselves, regardless of
gender. An imagination helps.
So does being the same species, altho Jack London did a pretty good job
with dogs (or so my German Shepherd used to say. He was very sharp, and
also prococious--during paper-training would always read the paper first).
At 02:45 PM 7/9/2000 PDT, you wrote:
> Something sent here recently implied that Keats's female characters
>were defective because they weren't created by a woman.
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> Would the same thing be argued of Shakespeare?
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> This is a serious question. I'd really like to know if any woman has
>looked at Ophelia or Miranda or Cleopatra or Rosalind or Mistress
>Quickly and said, "No, he's got it wrong."
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