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To: Alas Babylon!
Rylance played the female role Olivia in Twelfth Night in 2002 and won a Tony Award for that in 2014.

Sounds like a transgender.

Gender-confusion (meaning: a woman disguising herself as as a man) was the central plot point of "12th Night."

Regards,

8 posted on 04/04/2021 4:59:39 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek; Alas Babylon!

If you read the play, Viola does not disguise herself as a man out of gender confusion at all. She has no qualms about the fact she is a woman. Disguising herself as a man is merely a matter of survival, after a shipwreck. Don’t go startibg woke rumors about Shakespeare.

The only gender confusion in the play is by the Duke. He has a servant who is putatively a man, but he’s confused by subconiously realizing it’s a woman.


10 posted on 04/04/2021 3:15:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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