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Question: Who played the female roles in Elizabethan plays!?
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Men up until the 1660's and then the first lady was allowed to play a woman (Charles II changed the law)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Young women were played by boys whose voices have not changed!. Old women often by men!.!. There were no female actors on the stage in the Elizabethan theatre!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

All actors on the Elizabethan stage were male!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Men Www@QuestionHome@Com