Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 17 AIL 1623 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Boys in Women's Parts
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The idea
Women's roles were played by boys, which makes a plot like Twelfth Night's a boy playing a woman disguised as a man. Unit fifteen worked Viola's line that she is not what she is, and the casting adds a layer the printed text does not state.
In practice
A boy, a woman, a disguise.
Where people slip
The layer is historical, not textual.
Your place on the trail
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