Please consider the following quote and then answer the prompts.

Woolf states that “…it would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.”

What did Woolf mean by this statement?
What evidence does she present to support this statement?
What are the roles of gender, history, genius, and class in her argument?
What does Woolf suspect would be the consequence(s) to “any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century?”
What – based upon this excerpt – do you think the significance of “a room of one’s own” was to Woolf? Why?
What do you think Woolf means when she says to her audience that they “are sent to college partly, I suspect, to be uneducated”?