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Disguises allow us to, ironically, be ourselves in a way!. The characters basically have more freedom pretending to be someone else!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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And (in addition to your first answerer) during Shakespeare's day, a woman pretending to be a man was an opportunity for a male actor playing a female to get back to male clothing!. Then there's humor of the effeminate male who is trying to be a man but keeps doing feminine thhings!. It also allowed women access to male arenas such as when the law court is breached by a female disguised as a man in the trial scene in Merchant of VeniceWww@QuestionHome@Com

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