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withinboredom12/09/20241 replyview on HN

this is why I come here.

It's crazy that it took so long for women to walk upon the stage, but even crazier, that once they did, they put on entire plays acted by only women in such short a time.


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wqaatwt12/10/2024

England was a bit of a backwater, though.

Charles II also spent almost his entire adult life in the Netherlands and France where the arts were much more advanced. Theaters being banned for ~20 years also meant that they had begin do pretty much everything from scratch