Twelfth Night – Question on the Reading

Why did Shakespeare choose to write about gender-bending in his play? Was he trying to emphasize what the people of his time period deemed as suitable behavior for women? Or was he trying to show that just as men can play the roles of women, women can play the roles of men? (Given that at the time period all the women’s roles were played by men)

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