I feel young boys wanted to act at the time because they had a passion for acting and had a great love for it that it did not matter to them that they had to play characters of the opposite sex to them. Also at the time of Shakespeare it was illegal for women to perform Elizabethan theatre, therefore there were no actresses at the Globe Theatre. Also the way Shakespeare wrote about women in his plays and described them was completely wrong for example in “Richard 2nd the queen and her ladies” he wrote that all the women would be dressed like circus freaks. The acting profession was not seen as a very credible or good job so women did not appear in plays therefore it was up to the boys to take on the female roles otherwise I don’t know what
