Little Girls, or rather young women. Shakespeare has no characters who are prepubescent girls. That would be a waste of the relatively scarce boy actors.
However, the boy actors did play young boys, such as Prince Arthur in King John, or King Edward V in Richard III or Mamillius in A Winter's Tale.
No, women's roles were played by young boys, although at times women would dress up as men to be allowed to play women's roles!
purely because that is what most of Shakespearean characters were, boys! hope this helped you.
I don't know what Elizabeth you are speaking of, but I presume it was because she was a female Shakespearean actress who was acting after the year 1660 sometime. Sometimes actresses play the male roles in Shakespeare as well.
Females were not allowed to play on stage so men and boys played all the female roles.
Shakespeares "Othello"
In Shakespeare's time, all female roles were played by young boys or men because women were not allowed to perform on stage. This was a common practice due to societal norms and restrictions at the time.
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.
No, women's roles were played by young boys, although at times women would dress up as men to be allowed to play women's roles!
purely because that is what most of Shakespearean characters were, boys! hope this helped you.
I don't know what Elizabeth you are speaking of, but I presume it was because she was a female Shakespearean actress who was acting after the year 1660 sometime. Sometimes actresses play the male roles in Shakespeare as well.
Drummer boys were used to send messages to the soilders.
Females were not allowed to play on stage so men and boys played all the female roles.
Ophelia
Shakespeares "Othello"
The audience
hamlet
Yes, women weren't allowed to act.