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In Shakespeare's time men were the actors. The first woman actress played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.

Before Shakespeare's day, travelling rogues and cheats often passed themselves off as actors. When members of the nobility and even royalty began sponsoring permanent companies of actors, people who were more stable began to get into the profession, but there were still many wandering actors with no company who were not at all respectable, and the stigma stuck.

Shakespeare was unusual among theatre people of his time in that he was married and had a family. Most did not.

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