In Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Hero, one of the central female characters, functions as the dramatic means of defining and performing masculinity for the male characters around her, and her palpable silence in the unfolding of her own “romantic” plot can point to the similarity of the gender politics of romance and marriage between Elizabethan England and 21st century India. The comedic "resolution" of the play's central conflict through marriage depends crucially on the performance of gender roles that privilege “masculine” codes of honour and allegiance at the expense of “feminine” desire and agency.

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无所事事地阅读男子气概：来自印度课堂的笔记

在莎士比亚的《无事生非》中，作为中心女性角色之一的英雄扮演着为周围男性角色定义和表现男性气质的戏剧手段，而她在展开自己的“浪漫”情节时明显的沉默可以指向伊丽莎白时代的英格兰和 21 世纪的印度之间浪漫和婚姻的性别政治的相似性。通过婚姻解决该剧核心冲突的喜剧“解决方案”关键取决于性别角色的表现，这些角色以牺牲“女性”的欲望和能动性为代价，优先考虑“男性”的荣誉和忠诚准则。