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The four of the five main female characters in his plays were seen as women who cross-dress as men or boys: Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Rosalind in As You Like It, Viola in Twelfth Night.[1]
- ^ Hodgdon, Barbara (2001), Leggatt, Alexander (ed.), "Sexual disguise and the theatre of gender", The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy, Cambridge Companions to Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 179–197, doi:10.1017/ccol0521770440.011, ISBN 978-0-521-77044-6, retrieved 2023-10-24