"And for these new heroes, trying to be more than what they are, which is the oppressed, the angry, the stereotypical minority they need further support and development, but also a name. Something like but not necessarily Swagger Lee, a New Age kind of negro. "
Feb 15 '12
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A very nice article on boy actors who played women
This is for my anon I pleasantly talked to on my Romeo and Juliet post. It occurred to me that after responding, people might think I’m talking out of my ass if I continue to not deliver sources for my information. Life lesson right? Anyway the article is fantastic. Here’s just one of my favorite parts.
Shakespeare seems to have enjoyed this complication, as he makes the boy playing Rosalind in As You Like It assume disguise as the boy Ganymede while with her lover Orlando; but then Shakespeare encourages Ganymede to pretend that while still dressed as a boy ‘he’ is impersonating Rosalind.
And I am now on the quest to find Shakespeare’s Boy Actors, W. Robertson Davies
