Shakespeare liked women.... We do not find him, like Milton, luxuriating in the amoebic submissiveness of an Eve in Paradise... [nor interested in] the dim Marias and complaisant Catherines whom Hemingway found non-threatening....As accurately as if he had died yesterday, he represents the limits a girl can reach and still be sure of the approval of her society.
--Clara Park in "As We Like It," an essay in Rejoining the Common Reader
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