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Drama
M. C. D. | June 1, 1918 issue

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The article discusses women in the American theater. American feminized stage has long been anathema to the same critics that object to it's ladylike literature. The indisputable eminence of women in acting, the preponderance of women in the audiences of today, are so striking that it requires an effort of the imagination to realize that not only were all the women's parts acted by boys in dramatist William Shakespeare's day, but that no woman appeared on the English stage until after the Restoration and no lady appeared in the audience without the protection of a mask. Surely, the whirligig of time has brought in her revenges.

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WOMEN in the theater; PERFORMING arts; WOMEN dramatists -- United States; DRAMATISTS; WOMEN librettists; UNITED States
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