[DOC] [TLE] Boy actresses in Renaissance theatre and the role of Cleopatra [PAR] The production of plays during the Renaissance era, in particular the female 
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Queen of Egypt is Shakespeare's portrait of the consummate woman, endlessly ... 
and Cleopatra was not popular in Shakespeare's time because the boy actor 
could not... [DOC] [TLE] Antony and Cleopatra - Wikipedia [PAR] Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was 
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Squeaking Cleopatras: Gender and Performance in Antony and Cleopatra. ... If 
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nor the queen, not Creon, not Tiresias, but two .... Cleopatra: That time? [DOC] [TLE] War of the sexes: why Shakespeare's parts aren't just for men ... [PAR] Dec 4, 2012 ... Saying all-female productions are inauthentic misses the point ... why many who 
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been played by actresses with some success, it's hard to imagine a... [DOC] [TLE] Cleopatra: The Defiance of Feminine Virtue - Fisher Digital ... [PAR] William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra is a tragic love story that ... 
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disgrace. ... Egypt and Cleopatra's empire are alluded to several times in this 
passage. [DOC] [TLE] Shakespeare and gender: the 'woman's part' - The British Library [PAR] In Shakespeare's day, female parts were played by male actors, while more ... 
Actresses have long claimed their right to Olympian roles like Hamlet: Sarah ... of 
the play-going audience and worked in the theatre buildings but they did not act 
... In A Room of One's Own, Woolf writes, 'Let me imagine, since facts are so hard 
to... [DOC] [TLE] First Chapter or Excerpt - Harford County Public Library [PAR] What would it have been like to see one of his plays at the time of its first ... of the 
plays will richly reward any student of Shakespeare, but we understand if you ... 
women goes awry when they find out about each other and decide to return the 
.... of a passionate affair with Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, incurring Caesar's wrath
... [DOC] [TLE] What It's Really Like to Work in Hollywood (*If you're not a straight ... [PAR] Feb 24, 2016 ... The statistics are unequivocal: Women and minorities are vastly ... your funny 
walks, because you're going to be playing all the old guys. ... So we rehearsed 
on our free time and put on this showcase, and the faculty came, other students ... 
I got that phone call: They cast a Latino male in another role in the... [DOC] [TLE] Elizabethan Theater | Shakespeare in American Communities [PAR] Toward the end of the sixteenth century, the popularity of plays written by 
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plays for ... But Queen Elizabeth and later King James offered protections that 
ultimately ... acting companies consisted of men with young boys playing the 
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great; as a matter of fact, the role of Antony here

Question: Hard to imagine, but in Shakespeare's time, this queen of Egypt, like other female roles, was played by a boy
Answer: Cleopatra