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"Selecting 25 of Shakespeare's most well-known female characters from 21 of his plays, Jameson places each of them in one of four categories: Intellect, Passion and Imagination, The Affections, and, Historical Characters. From Viola in Twelfth Night and Opehlia in Hamlet, both of whom she considered to be "characters of passion and imagination," to the "historical character" of Lady Macbeth, the one of "the affections" seen in King Lear's Cordelia, and that of Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, as a "character of intellect," Jameson creates a three-dimensional life for each. She builds on Shakespeare's paper creation and invites the reader to grasp the essence of that particular female, her...
Reproduction of the original: The Jamesons by Mary E. Wilkins