Shakespeare was the biggest playwright of the time in Renaissance England, a period that saw great many changes in all walks of life. In Shakespearean times, a play or a stage show had to be extremely versatile and suit every setting possible - indoor or outdoor, a public arena or a private audience. In most of these settings, all the characters in a stage show, male as well as female, were essayed by boys and men as acting was an exclusively male domain.
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