Tagore and Shakespeare: A Comparative Study of their Views of Daughters as Reflected in their Works

In this study, I want to show that the greatest Bangali writer and the greatest English writer had one concern in common as fathers—how to marry their daughters to suitable bridegrooms. This anxiety of the daughters’ fathers is counterpoised by the greed for dowry among the young men seeking a rich father-in-law. While my article will develop along with this contrapuntal opposition--father’s anxiety versus dowry-hunter’s greed, I’ll also shed light on the biographical elements of both these writers as the depiction in their works of young women being married to wr...