Friday essay: from Daenerys to Yara - the top ten women of Game of Thrones
- Written by The Conversation Contributor

This essay contains spoilers for A Game of Thrones up to season six, episode three, and for A Song of Ice and Fire up to A Dance of Dragons.
When Game of Thrones first aired in 2011, The New York Times published a now infamousreview of the first season by Ginia Bellafante. The program’s “illicitness,” she wrote – i.e. its...