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Why was it illegal to perform on a Elizabethan stage if you were a woman?
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∙ 12y ago
Yes, it was.
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Why couldn't women participate in plays during Shakespeare's time?
It was against the law. And it was against the law because it was thought to be extremely indecent. Suggesting to an Elizabethan woman that she should perform on stage would be insulting to her, in the same way as suggesting that she walk down the street naked would be. Not that the punishment was all that serious--the famous Elizabethan transvestite Mary Frith appeared on the stage of the Fortune theatre playing a lute and singing and basically got off with a warning. The theatre owners risked having their theatre closed down by letting her do that.
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It was illegal in the sense that if a woman was caught doing it she could be arrested and taken before the courts. One woman this actually happened to is Mary Frith, a woman in Shakespeare's day who dressed and acted like a man all the time. She was charged with having got up on the stage of the Fortune Theatre and sung a song (probably in Dekker and Middleton's play about her, The Roaring Girl). The penalty was not harsh: she was given a penance and had to promise not to do it again.
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