Why Was A Female Shakespeare Impossible? I agree with Woolf that it would have been impossible for a woman to write the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare, because of the pressures that shaped her world: pressures of family, of economics, of politics, of society’s expectations. What was unusual about Shakespeare’s female characters?
Why Did Males Play Female Roles? Desire, homosexuality, and the malleability of gender for Renaissance MTF and boy actors. In order to correctly portray the essence of a female when acting, male actors needed to get the audience to believe that they were females, and to do this, MTF actors needed the audience to desire
Who Played The Females Roles In The Plays? In Shakespeare’s day, female parts were played by male actors, while more recently, actresses have taken on some of his most famous male roles such as Hamlet and Julius Caesar. Clare McManus explores gender in the history of Shakespeare performance. What kind of roles did actor John
Did Boys Also Play Complex Lead Female Roles? Did boys also play complex lead female roles? Some literary critics and some ordinary readers have found it incredible that the most formidable and complex female roles created by Shakespeare and Webster could have been played by “children”. Why did boys play women’s roles? As for the