#GoodRead | Secret lives of women who broke taboo to act in Shakespeare

"Secret lives of women who broke taboo to act in Shakespeare":

Shakespeare’s female roles were played by boys or young men until 1660, but new research by the British Library has uncovered details of the careers of the few, ground-breaking women who began to take on major Shakespearean characters in the face of the prejudice of their times.

Read Vanessa Thorpe's full article at The Guardian here…