Why would it have been impossible for a woman to write Shakespeare's plays according to Virginia Woolf in A Room of One's Own?

convincingly demonstrates that it was impossiblenot merely that it would have been impossiblefor
any woman to write plays like those that William Shakespeare wrote. As she insightfully but
humorously presents the numerous obstacles that kept women from writing, Woolf encourages the
reader to re-think not only the concept of geniuswhich is so often applied to Shakespearebut
also of the numerous different occupations that the young man had; these included actor and
manager as well as writer.

Woolf elaborates the social circumstances in
which even upper-class girls...