Top Five Women in Shakespeare Plays Who are Wrongly Accused

by Ernie on 17/01/10 at 10:17 am

5. Hermione in Winter’s Tale: accused by her crazy husband of unfaithfulness.

4. Hero in Much Ado About Nothing: accused by her tricked fiance of having sex the night before their wedding.

3. Desdemona in Othello: accused by her tricked husband of unfaithfulness.

2. Cordelia in King Lear: accused by her narcissistic father of not loving him.

1. Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Oberon wrongfully accuses Titania of being in love with Theseus.

OBERON

How canst thou thus for shame, Titania,
Glance at my credit with Hippolyta,
Knowing I know thy love to Theseus?
Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night
From Perigenia, whom he ravished?
And make him with fair AEgle break his faith,
With Ariadne and Antiopa?

TITANIA

These are the forgeries of jealousy: