Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago

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Shakespeare tells people to look at themselves
in the mirror and tell themselves that they
should have a child, so as to ‘form another’
copy of their face. Shakespeare urges that
without children, they will be cheating the
world of what it expects and depriving a
woman of the chance to bear a child. which
Elizabethan society considers a ‘blessing’
for a wife: the chance to become a mother.