
Throughout history, women have wielded power--as rulers, or warriors, or sometimes through others. They may have been revered or at least obeyed, but just as often, they were maligned, condemned or even murdered. Were they battleaxes? She-wolves? One of the others? Or just smart and ambitious? Read on.
It should have been a relatively simple task. Of so many eligible men in the city of Venice, PORTIA only need to find someone she considered worthy. But that’s how the plot unfolds in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. And then it got really messy.
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Calamity Jane
