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Disguise is usually a feature of Shakespearean comedies

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Disguise is usually a feature of Shakespearean comedies.  What is the significance of Rosalind's decision to disguise herself as a young man?  Why does Celia disguise her economic class but not her gender?  What do you think the audience of Shakespeare's time thought of a boy actor playing a woman who is in turn pretending to be a man (and who in one scene pretends to be a woman when "he" (as Ganymede) is teaching Orlando how to woo!)