Cultural Herstory In the stories of King Lear, The Faerie Queene and The Wife of Bath’s Prologue, women are represented by the roles in which they play in the British culture in which they lived in. Each tells a story of the impact they made on society though communicating the culture in which they were present. Culture, in a sense, is a set of rules or standards shared by members of a society, which …showed first 75 words of 1266 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1266 total…or their rather blunt ideals of sex and multiple marriages, The Wife of Bath, Britomart, and King Lear’s evil daughters impacted the lives of others while communicating the culture in which they lived in. They are true representations of the different types of roles women played. In conclusion, women of the sixteenth century finally stepped out of the back seat to jump to the driver’s side as each tells of their cultural herstory.