Shakespeare was the Bard of Avon, not Avalon

“She had ink-stained fingers, spectacles, and so many piece of parchment that she needed a clipboard to hold it all.”
Should be: “She had ink-stained fingers, spectacles, and so many pieces of parchment that she needed a clipboard to hold it all.”

Just because Skills and Classes would make things somewhat more even between genders doesn’t mean those differences don’t exist at all. Women are still the only gender that can give birth (presumably, aside from maybe something like selphids?) and would thus be protected more often than males so that groups could continue to reproduce. Levels would allow women to a niece similar heights to men for most physical things, but there are still physical, biological differences that would show between equal level men and women of the same class.

You’d also still have differences in attractiveness between different genders. Garia is a perfect example of this: she has always been strong, more so than most males around her age. But her classes also affected how she looked physically, and that made her less attractive to many people. While not everyone would care about such things, you would naturally see both genders skewing towards classes that made them more appealing to their preferred genders. Not everyone, no, but there would be a definite statistical difference.

I also think you’re looking at things the wrong way in general. Even with the above being true, we still see tons of cases where women are in equal or greater positions of power compared to men, and no one in Innworld causes any issues over it. They are far, far more equal in gender bias for most things than on Earth.

In regards to the plays specifically, what Jasi brings up in also true. Even the plays that do have arguably more interesting female characters, the male characters are still more often the main focus, and the female characters are typically framed by some sort of love plot. And that’s really all she wants: a female lead character that isn’t bound by such a plot trope, just as if it were a male character. She’s not trying to spark a feminist revolution, or throw in any of our modern Earth social justice stuff.

Those have been mentioned, actually. Specifically, most gnoll traditions are told orally. And we’ve also seen what happens with that, in regards to the Rhaskgar, with no one really having very clear information on them – even though they are supposed to be the archnemesis of their entire race.

Oral traditions also have the issue of drift, over long periods of time. And considering how old Innworld is, compared to Earth, you’d have a lot of drift transmitting everything verbally.

But the other issue, which affects lots of things in this world, is simply a matter of too many people dying off before they can or want to disperse their knowledge. Have someone create a really great story, and that story might be a huge success in one city. Then that city gets destroyed in a war, or by monsters, and you only have inferior copies being passed around (like we see with the other group of actors in this chapter). Those never reach the height of the original, and get passed on less and less, until they are essentially gone entirely.

While Earth has had that happen to some things over the centuries, it is nowhere near as often as Innworld seems to.

Jeanne d’Arc might work, though finding someone that knows her story well enough would probably be a challenge. Erin almost certainly wouldn’t.

Robin Hood would make a good play with an adapted female lead. I could maybe see that being a bit sketchy to show in a city like Invrisil, or anywhere that nobility controls directly.

King Arthur, could maybe work and is popular. Dunno how well it’d work with a female lead. But the main issue with that, would be that the fae are real in Innworld, and they’ve mentioned Arthur a number of times, so he’s probably a “real” figure. Messing with his story would have a high chance of see the Players get an avalanche dropped on top of them.

I’d say the biggest factor is that so far, they are relying solely on Erin for the stories from Earth. Which means anything she hasn’t seen is a no go. Describing a lot of modern movies would also be somewhat tough, with how much cgi they rely on.

“brook a lot of interest”
brook -> spark

Or ignite
Or generated