>In Shakespearean theatre, female roles were played by young boys or men because women were not permitted to act on stage. This practice was common during the Elizabethan era, and the lack of female actors was a societal norm rather than a legal restriction
How true is this aislop answer? What are the chances of Shakespeare being a based pederast?
>>24535456 (OP)Should have paid attention in school.
>>24535456 (OP)That's one of the most famous facts about Shakespeare's time.
>>24535456 (OP)he wrote all those sonnets
for a young man
>>24535481>when Women of Trachis premiered the same actor would have played both Heracles and his wifeI'd be interested to see a return to staging classical drama under the constraints the playwrites were actually working with.
>>24535456 (OP)Isn't that quite common in theater in general? Ancient greeks also did not allow woman to perform in theater with some exceptions I think
i was reading a book and it had a thing about the history of poetry and on the shakesphere part it mentions the globe theater where he put on his plays also had a bear people would throw things at and a monkey riding a dog like a horse
>>24535502Neither did the Japanese or Chinese
