2 Shopone prompt (15 points)
Read the fun g e from Veginia Wool's 1929 extended A Room of one or
De would have been impossible, completely and entirely for any woman to have
when the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare. Let me imagine, since
facts are so hard to come by what would have happened had Shakespeare had a
wonderfully gifted sister called Judith let us say Shakespeare himself went, very
probably to the grammar school where he may have learnt Latin.. and the
elements of grammar and logic Very soon he got work in the theatre, became a
SUCCES actor, and lived at the hub of the universe, meeting everybody knowing
everybody, practising his art on the board exercising his wits in the streets, and
even getting access to the palace of the queen. Meanwhile his extraordinarily
gitted sister ... was as adventurous, as imaginative, as agog to see the world as
he was. But she was not sent to school. She picked up a book now and then
one of her brothers perhaps, and read a few pages. But then her parents came in
and told her to mend the stockings or mind the stew and not moon about with
books and papers. ... Before she was out of her teens, she was to be betrothed
to the son of a neighbouring woolstapler. She cried out that marriage was hateful
to her, and for that she was severely beaten by her father. She made up a small
parcel of her belongings, let herself down by a rope one summer's night and took
the road to London . She had the quickest fancy, a gift like her brothers, for the
tune of words. Like him she had a taste for the theatre. She stood at the stage
door, she wanted to act, she said. Men laughed in her face... At last Nick
Greene the actor-manager took pity on her, she found herself with child by that
gentleman and so - who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's heart
when caught and tangled in a woman's body? - killed herself one winter's night
and les buried at some cross-roads where the omnibuses now stop outside the
Elephant and Castle.
According to Woolf, why were there no "female Shakespeares in Shakespeare's time? In your own
words, state the point, or idea about women that Woolf makes in the passage. Then analyze how Woolf
develops that idea in the passage Be sure to use specific details from the passage to support your
deas