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Rick Bradford's avatar

You skipped the medieval English view of actors, or, as they were usually known, 'tumblers and players'. They were regarded as low-status itinerant buskers, meaning that they were effectively excluded from property ownership and the chance of marriage.

It's too bad that these individuals, who spend their working life pretending to be someone else, garner such wealth and status in the modern West.

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