Player Queens Boy Actors on Shakespeare’s Stage
| Author |
| Ronan Paterson |
| Date of Publication: June, 2026 |
| Volume: XXIII |
| DOI:10.65734/tgi.ssei.avp.ijcsss.ti.23.1 |
| Abstract |
| When William Shakespeare created some of the most memorable female roles in all of world theatre he had no realistic possibility that he would ever see those roles played by women. Instead he wrote for young male members of the company, who played female roles. The recruitment and training of these young players, and the ways in which they represented the female characters they played on stage have long been the subject of debate amongst scholars, but all too often the analysis is based upon false premises, informed by unsupported traditions and generalised assumptions rather than analysis. |
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