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Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 47, 13 July 1908, Page 7

Shakespeare, above 1 all his contemporaries, kn.ew the soul of women almost as far as it is to be known, and as it was in his time. But the women of Shakespearo belong to the past rather than to the present. Above all things in his plays there is the joyousness of sex. There is but little of that bitterness, that unrestfulness, that rebellion, which is characteristic of more modern women. And in their frankness, their fearlessness, their camaraderie with men, as shown in such a character as Beatrice, there is nothing in common with the prudishness, the false sentiment, the deep ignorance of manhood, the secret terrors, and the domestic slavishness of the women of a later period, when Puritanism had changed the character of the nation, and enchained women in a bondage out of which they are now struggling rather wildly.—“ Tribune.”