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Young boys, girls and young women. Yes, the boys also played boys, like Mamillius in The Winter's Tale, Prince Arthur in King John, Edward V and his brother the Duke of York in Richard III, the young Duke Humphrey in Henry IV Part 2, Falstaff's boy in Henry V and so on.

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