In Shakesperian times, women's and men's roles differed from each other immensely. Men were masculine and were not meant to be ruled by emotion, whereas women were meant to stay in the home and were thought to be emotional and therefore bad at decision making. On stage, Shakespeare broke down these barriers of social norms, he had men play feminine roles and women play masculine. I think this helped create comedy because people wouldn't be accustomed to seeing gender swapped roles in theatre though it never went further than what people of the Elizabethan society deemed acceptable. Shakespeare was one of the major theatre practitioners to introduce this to his comedic pieces of theare. In the comedic pieces women would probably be writing to
