where women actors tolerated during Shakespeares time why?
Answer Hi Jareka, There were no women actors in Shakespeare’s time. The law was that women were not allowed to perform on the public stage. Acting was considered a disreputable profession, and it would have been against all their religious and moral principals for women to perform in public. Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe were both contemporaries of Shakespeare. Their work was very popular at the time and both were respected dramatists and poets, perhaps even moreso than Shakespeare in their time. Marlowe was an admired and influential playwright, already popular when Shakespeare first began writing in London. He may have even been one of Shakespeare’s mentors. But Marlowe died young, at the age of 29, killed in a brawl, or perhaps murdered, some 23 years before Shakespeare’s death, and wrote only about 6 or 7 plays, along with several poems. Jonson’s best work was largely in comedy and satire and was exceptionally well-received right through the 17th century until tastes changed a
