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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