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智 课 网 G R E 备 考 资 料 新GRE阅读高频文章：英国女演员地位-智课教育旗下智 课教育 下面是关于英国女演员的地位的新GRE阅读高频文章，准备好这篇 新GRE阅读文章，可以在考试的时候遇到的时候避免了读题的时间，更 好的把时间运用在做题中。 下面这篇新GRE阅读高频文章，了解GRE考试出题特征。这是一篇 典型的介绍英美文化的文章，文章是长阅读。这样的题材非常受到GRE 考试的欢迎，所以有关于这类的新GRE真题文章，也需要大家有所了解 。 英国女演员的地位： In the past, only men could become actors in some societies. In the ancient Greece and Rome and the medieval world, it was considered disgraceful for a woman to go on the stage,and this belief persisted until the 17th century, when in Venice it was broken. In the time of William Shakespeare, womens roles were generally played by men or boys.When an eighteen-year Puritan prohibition of drama was lifted after the English Restoration of 1660, women began to appear on stage in England. Margaret Hughes is credited by some as the first professional actress on the English stage. This prohibition ended during the reign of Charles II in part due to the fact that he enjoyed watching actresses on stage. The first occurrence of the term actress was in 1700 according to the OED and is ascribed to Dryden. In Japan, men (onnagata) took over the female roles in kabuki theatre when women were banned from performing on stage during the Edo period. This convention has continued to the present. However, some forms of Chinese drama have women playing all the roles. In modern times, women sometimes play the roles of prepubescent boys. The stage role of Peter Pan, for example, is traditionally played by a woman, as are most principal boys in Britishpantomime. Opera has several breeches roles traditionally sung by women, usually mezzo-sopranos. Examples are Hansel in Hänsel und Gretel, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro and Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier.Women in male roles are uncommon in film with the notable exceptions of the films The Year of Living Dangerously and Im Not There. In the former film Linda Hunt played the pivotal role of Billy Kwan, for