Yes, but the Elizabethan stage was inhabited in part by boy actors who gave a more convincing performance as boys than as girls. (The fandom equivalent might be MarySues who give a more convincing performance as cardboard.) John Franceschina wrote an amazing book called Homosexualities in the English Theatre From Lyly to Wilde--flatly written but piling up mountains of evidence about early modern theatrical practice.
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Date: 2006-03-30 05:00 am (UTC)