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Elizabethan stages completely banned women from performing
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In a move of staggering patriarchal absurdity, 16th-century English society considered it wildly immoral for a woman to act on stage. Thus, every single female role in Shakespeare’s plays—from Juliet to Lady Macbeth—was originally performed by prepubescent boys whose voices hadn't dropped yet, wearing heavy makeup and dresses.
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