People used to have their money pouches tied to them with a cord. So a cutpurse was like a pickpocket with a knife - a quick slash, and your money pouch was gone.
If you are refering to what they wore on stage, then it would be wrong because it was considered unethical for women to act onstage in Shakespeare's times. So young boys had to dress up as girls...
The age of discovery, the age of reconnaissance, was also a great age of classical scholarship. This is probably not a coincidence: colonization is one of the leading themes in ancient history, and...
There were no real witches in Shakespeare's time, because they don't exist!But, there is no exact figure as to how many women were thought to be witches. There were apparently thousands of them...