Thursday, March 6, 2014
On Boy Actors in Female Roles
In
Lisa Jodine's piece, "On Boy Actors in Female Roles" she explains how
female roles were played by young boys in the Shakespearean time. Elizabethan theater
found this acceptable and therefore the young boys thought it was common and found
nothing immoral about it. Jodine proposed that this caused confusion and
homosexuality amongst the young boys. I agree with her assumptions that the
boys curiosity leads to homosexuality because they are told to dress like
women, act like women and even more intense, to kiss another man. This only
makes a young boy confused of what he shall act like. Also as he continues to impersonate
a female, he might become fond of it and bound to find it natural. In all, we
can conclude that the "inevitable accompaniment” of men becoming females
is "stirred" from the Shakespearean time.
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