Jacobean Drama According to the illustration in this play, the Duchess was more than a wife. She was like Queen Elizabeth according to her expression as a ruler. This was because the Queen had the same challenges to patriarchal assumption, concerning the lack of capacity to women on exercising authority. That she had encouraged the Duchess to take part in the act. At the same time, she was under pressure to marry in order to offer realm of a ruler as male did. Before her proposal to the scene, Duchess compared herself to a man going into the battle and had tended to command within her marriage. She also displayed an androgyny that Elizabeth got in her working place.