Review: Fern Theatre's all-female "Lear" brings unexpected dimension to classic Bard
Shakespeare may have created some of the most memorable female characters of all time, but acting in Elizabethan England was strictly a male profession. Probably due to the aesthetic limitations inherent in the convention of having boys play women, these roles were kept relatively small (even central heroines like Rosalind and Viola speak less than...
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