As You Like It

when Rosalind faints at the sight of blood,Oliver suggests her to act like a man for some more time.Do we have to understand that Oliver could sense that Ganemede is a girl?

This context is in Act IV scene III,during the meeting of Oliver with two girls.

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Most critics agree that Oliver suspects that there is something up with Ganemede. His suspicions are never stated outright. Elizabethans found the whole cross-dressing thing amusing to a point. After a suitable period, they demanded that the genders return to their "natural" state. They felt that the natural order of things must be constant.