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Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 3: "The Maiden's Organ"

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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Shakespeare's Gender Play

There's a clear meto joke here of the boy actor playing a girl playing a boy. But also, at the same time, this monologue would have been given by a young male actor who basically is saying, yes, look at me. Don't i look very good in women's clothes? I'm very good at this gender bending, right? So maybe this is shakespeare making a little joke about himself and his own gender bending.

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