Cross-Dressing in Shakespeare

[faustus]

It's been a while since I read MUch Ado about Nothing but whilst the girl (Hero?) pretends to be dead, am I right in thinking that this is one of the Shakespeare comedies without women dressing as men or vice versa (As You Like It, Twelfth Night, say)

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[maryread.livejournal.com]

But in Beatrice it does have one of the sharpest women in Shakespeare. "You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy... O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace." &c.

And the Much Ado is About one woman being mistaken for another.

[korintomichi]

Don't recall much cross dressing - but there was lots of mistaken identity. The film version amusingly had Keanu Reeves trying to be serious. He managed a better accent than in Dracula - remember Caarfaarx Abbaay?