So In the victorian Era All the actors were Male*pause*

[the mechanic]

BBC - Coventry and Warwickshire - History - Shakespeare - well, I never knew that!

No women allowed
The actors were all men in Shakespeare's day. The parts of women were played by boys who still had light voices.

Romeo and juliet (13 year old julius) and all those other love scenes like the tempest,taming of the shrew...that was men making out with boys

Actors' toil
In Shakespeare’s time copyright didn’t exist, so the actors only got their lines as the play was in progress. They only got to know who else was playing what the day of the performance.
Many times they didn't even get their own lines. They did cue acting, which meant that there was a person backstage that whispered the lines to the person right before he was going to say them. Actors were not considered trustworthy people, and the market for good plays was large.

The Box Office
In Elizabethan times many of Shakespeare’s plays were performed at The Globe Theatre in London. To get in, you put one penny in a box by the door. Then you could stand on the ground in front of the stage.
To sit on the first balcony, you put another penny in the box held by a man in front of the stairs. To sit on the second balcony, you put another penny in the box held by the man by the second flight of stairs.
Then when the show started, the men went and put the boxes in a room backstage - the box office.

The Globe
The Globe Theatre didn’t just show plays. It acted as a bear pit, brothel, and a gambling house.

at least there was a brothel.

Pray tell what dost thou think of this HL

Spoiler

*Waits for ignorant trolls to drop manure posts filled with cac,f@g,h0mo without ever having read a word of shakespeare *

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

like blackface but for everyone who wasnt a white male

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Japanese did it one better. During the early 17th century, 'kabuki theater' was born, but it was all-female until it was banned in the late 17th century and replaced with all-male kabuki.

The actors were also available to the patrons of the shows for special 'services' after each performance....

However, I digress. I thought everyone knew Shakespeare's plays were all-male?​

 

[88m3]

Sounds like Mowgli would have enjoyed himself.


Does it say bear pit?

 

[88m3]

@the mechanic what's a bear pit?

 

[newworldafro]

Japanese did it one better. During the early 17th century, 'kabuki theater' was born, but it was all-female until it was banned in the late 17th century and replaced with all-male kabuki.

The actors were also available to the patrons of the shows for special 'services' after each performance....

However, I digress. I thought everyone knew Shakespeare's plays were all-male?[/CENTER]​

I've heard this mentioned before.....I wonder what year, they finally decided to get vagina laden actresses to play the female roles........ if Shakespeare was around in the 1200s or 1300s...how long were they doing this???​

 

[the mechanic]

@the mechanic what's a bear pit?

It was an enclosure where live bears were kept to entertain crowds..usually a pit because bears are generally lousy climbers...Bears were an exotic animal to most people in england

Bear baiting was a huge attraction, even enjoyed by Queen Elizabeth. The spectators sat on benches in the round arena. The bear was tethered to a stake in the middle of the ring, able to move only a short distance before being drawn up sharply when it got to the end of its tether. That’s where the phrase ’at the end of my tether’ comes from – the frustration and agony of not being able to go any further. Dogs would be released to taunt the bear, and the excitement came from the tension beween the bear and the dogs. The most agile dogs would be able to spring away, out of the bear’s range, but any mistakes would be fatal: a bear would kill several dogs before itself occasionally becoming the victim. The crowd would roar its encouragement to the bear.

 

[the mechanic]

Japanese did it one better. During the early 17th century, 'kabuki theater' was born, but it was all-female until it was banned in the late 17th century and replaced with all-male kabuki.

The actors were also available to the patrons of the shows for special 'services' after each performance....

However, I digress. I thought everyone knew Shakespeare's plays were all-male?​

the all female one sounds nice...the Japanese have good taste when it comes to seedy adult entertainment

 

[the mechanic]

I've heard this mentioned before.....I wonder what year, they finally decided to get vagina laden actresses to play the female roles........ if Shakespeare was around in the 1200s or 1300s...how long were they doing this???

Alas i fear they doth locked lips with the lads untill the 1800th year of our lord






http://lemoyne.edu/Portals/11/pdf_content/history/The Evolution of Actresses.pdf

A. Women in theatre during the 16
th
Century
1. Women in Shakespearean theatre
a. Women’s roles were played by young boys.
2. Commedia dell’Arte – Italian improvised drama
a. A type of masked theatre that usually had a family for its cast,
with a husband and wife.
b. Despite opposition, this type of theatre gave women a place on
the stage.
B. Women in theatre during the 17
th
Century
1. Women first appeared on the English and Parisian stages.
2. Actresses of this time were considered unwomanly and improper
as they had to put themselves on public display in order to work.
C. Women in theatre during the 18
th
and early 19
th
Centuries.
1. Women during the 18
th
and 19
th
centuries often led boring lives as
they weren’t allowed to do what men took part

 

[thekingsmen]

You didn't learn about this is high school?

 

[throughthefire]

all female roles were casted by prepubescent boys

 

[the mechanic]

You didn't learn about this is high school?

English literature

was nap time breh

 

[newworldafro]

Alas i fear they doth locked lips with the lads untill the 1800th year of our lord






http://lemoyne.edu/Portals/11/pdf_content/history/The Evolution of Actresses.pdf

500 years huh....................................