Female actors didn't appear on the professional stage until about 50 years after Shakespeare's death. Which explains, at least in part, why actresses are always lamenting the paucity of great roles for women in his plays as compared to those for men (although that's no excuse for the paucity of strong female roles in plays written over the last five centuries). Last year, the director Phyllida Lloyd decided …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:27AM on October 12, 2013