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Classical Drama and Theatre

Women in classical Athens were precluded from all public roles, theatrical, political or otherwise. It was a natural extension of this sequestered existence that Athenian women did not participate in the most public of all art forms, the theatre. Thus, if female characters were to be represented on the stage at all, men had no choice but to play them.

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