- All's Well That Ends Well
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- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
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- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
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- Henry VI, Part 3
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- The Winter's Tale
Sir Anthony has said that women should not be taught to read, because reading exposes them to harmful ideas. Mrs. Malaprop objects and Sir Anthony asks her to give an account of the proper course of education for a woman. The assumption at the time was that women needed to be educated only for their role in society, and any further knowledge would ruin or pervert their feminine virtues. No one is a less fit advocate for the importance of education for women than Mrs. Malaprop, who fancies herself to be eloquent and well-educated, but mixes up the large words…