Women. As in John Knox's book "The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstruous Regiment of Women", published six years before Shakespeare's birth. Or as in this line from Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream: "By all the vows that ever men have broke, In number more than ever women spoke" And here is John Donne: "Like pictures, or like books' gay coverings made
For laymen, are all women thus array'd."
Playwright Tennessee Williams is often referred to as the "American Shakespeare."
women
Shakespeare is often called the Bard of Avon.
The ones we know about were his mother, Mary Arden Shakespeare, his sisters Anne Shakespeare and Joan Shakespeare Hart, his wife Anne Hathaway Shakespeare, and his daughters Susanna Shakespeare Hall and Judith Shakespeare Quiney.
"And all the men and women merely players" (As You Like It)
Shakespeare was referred to by his contemporaries as "The Swan of Avon".
Shakespeare didn't have women actors because back when he was living women weren't aloud to have that kind of job
shakespeare was a nice person to be around well in them days shakespeare was a nice person to be around well in them days
Playwright Tennessee Williams is often referred to as the "American Shakespeare."
Early years
men performed in Shakespeare's plays not women because men thought women weren't good enough
The Bard of Avon
women
In my opinion, yes, Shakespeare like women because of his nature and all the plays he created about love.
Shakespeare's heroines were played by boys up to 1660 or so and by young women since.
Shakespeare is often called the Bard of Avon.
The Sun or daystar as Shakespeare referred to it.