The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

A Woman's Thoughts About Women [from London 'Fun']

"A Woman's Thoughts About Women [from London 'Fun']." New York Saturday Press, December 16, 1865, 317.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

The short poem runs through several of Shakespeare's female characters and the narrator's harsh judgment of each, ranging from Desdemona's decision to marry the "negro" Othello to Lady MacBeth's evil influence on her husband. The narrator has a low opinion of theater in general, as seen in the line "Such conduct even on the stage / I think I never knew."