> On Monday, October 7, 2002, at 07:27 PM, Printmaker wrote:
>
> > Funny no-one has suggested a female author,
> > but then she'd have made more female roles eh?
>
> well, there is the small problem that women were not allowed on the
> stage till nearly a century later...
To be (as ever) pedantic -- Elizabeth I has been suggested as an author of
"Shakespeare".
And it wasn't a century before women came on the stage -- it was in 1660,
with the return of Charles II.
Robin
(With the interesting [?] shift from the concept of cross-dressing, with
characters such as Viola in 12N -- boy actor playing a girl playing a boy --
to what was called "the breeches part" -- a female actress playing a boy so
she could show her legs.
Plus ca change ...
R2)
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