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Many societies prohibited women from performing on stage, so boys and men took the female roles. Female impersonation often decreased in popularity as women gained this right. Female cross-cast roles are commonly young boy characters, or, in the case of theatre companies like the Takarazuka Revue Company, male heroes.
Cross-casting, or casting roles written for one gender with an actor of the opposite (or non-binary) gender, is actually as old as theater itself. Western theater began in ancient Greece, where female roles were instead played by men or boys.
Women's parts were played by boys and young men, which perhaps gave an added comic frisson to the cross-dressing in some of Shakespeare's early plays. It was therefore interesting to hear that this was not actually the result of a law.
Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel brought the tradition from the English music halls when they came to the United States with Fred Karno's comedy troupe in 1910.);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(hLjFZuvTGa-9wPAP45OsiQQ__65,