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Contents:
- WAS SHAKPEARE GAY?
- WAS SHAKPEARE GAY?
- SHAKPEARE HAD GAY CHARACTERS TOO, PEOPLE JT IGNORED : SIR IAN MCKELLEN
- WAS SHAKPEARE GAY, AND DO MATTER?
- WAS SHAKPEARE GAY? HIS SEXUALY IS STILL DEBATED BY SCHOLARS TODAY
- 11 PIEC OF EVINCE WE HAD A GAY SHAKPEARE
- NO, SHAKPEARE WAS NOT GAY
WAS SHAKPEARE GAY?
Was Shakpeare gay? It difficult to terme whether Shakpeare was gay bee only snt documentary evince has survived about his personal life." emprop="scriptn * shakespeare gay *
This is a really big qutn that people have wrten a great al about, so this episo acts as a sort of summary of some of the arguments for and agast Shakpeare beg gay. I’m Jennifer Reid, and today we’re askg, “Was Shakpeare gay?
And prev podsts, I’ve played you lots of short clips om a variety of speakers, but this week I’m gog to do slightly differently, and play you fewer, longer clips, as the clips ought to be played their was Shakpeare gay? DOLLIMORE: I don’t know whether Shakpeare was gay or not, bee he didn’t leave any personal rerd.
WAS SHAKPEARE GAY?
'Was Shakpeare Gay?' - the qutn discsed episo seven of our Let's Talk Shakpeare podst. From the Shakpeare Birthplace Tst. * shakespeare gay *
So, what that actually entailed [sic] people isn’t the equivalent of what a lovg gay relatnship is, whether or not Shakpeare was gay is a difficult qutn.
One thg that is fe, though, is that there was no self-inty as gay or homosexual or, as far as we know, any other term durg that time perd. So, Shakpeare certaly didn’t go around self-intifyg himself as homosexual or bisexual or straight or gay. Michael Dobson explored this ia, the ia of Shakpeare’s awarens of different sexuali and sexual preferenc when I spoke to Well, sofar as the tegori of gay and straight didn’t exist, then he wasn’t gay, but that equally means that he uldn’t have been straight eher.
SHAKPEARE HAD GAY CHARACTERS TOO, PEOPLE JT IGNORED : SIR IAN MCKELLEN
On the 456th anniversary of his birth, people are terted to know if William Shakpeare was gay. The answer is more plited than people know. * shakespeare gay *
There's a lot of bate about whether anybody was gay, any of the morn sense, Elizabethan culture, or whether there were jt certa thgs they did, sometim, that didn’t actually fe a particular set of inti.
So, the morn term would probably be… terted, rather than, [lghs] rather than gay. Did Shakpeare have relatns, or lovg relatns, wh a male person – was he, as we say, gay?
WAS SHAKPEARE GAY, AND DO MATTER?
Let's explore 11 piec of evince and unver hidn clu om his sons and plays that support the possibily of a gay Shakpeare. * shakespeare gay *
Well he certaly wasn’t gay the plete sense of the word throughout his life, bee he marri early, marri young, and he has three children – so to that extent, he’s heterosexual.
However, ’s not impossible, my view, that Shakpeare did have sexual relatns, actually wh both femal (other than his wife) and wh don’t portray homosexual relatnships very clearly his plays. But over to Greg, to expand upon this and tell you what he thks about Shakpeare’s Was Shakpeare gay?
WAS SHAKPEARE GAY? HIS SEXUALY IS STILL DEBATED BY SCHOLARS TODAY
Well, there’s a lot of nonsense talked about this “gay wasn’t really gay then”, as if human nature and the exprsn of human feelgs changed this one regard the last 400 years.
I do believe Shakpeare was gay, and… Ah, you know, as I say that I’m aware that everyone tends to st Shakpeare their own image, some way, so I, as a gay man, brought up a Catholic Lanshire, like to feel that Shakpeare might have spent his last years as a teacher Lanshire, had some Catholic sensibili (or at least an unrstandg of the nostalgia for the old fah), and that he experienced a passnate sire for his own sex!
11 PIEC OF EVINCE WE HAD A GAY SHAKPEARE
” Now, that is a pretty [chuckl] extraordary erotic scriptn of male of urse, there’s also a scriptn on the battlefield of homophobia – of homophobic prejudice, at any rate – and the most scurrilo terms, the mouth of Thers Troil and Crsida, where he ris the love of Achill for his iend Patrocl, sayg, “Thou art thought to be Achill' male varlet. It’s a brilliant scriptn of homophobia.
And, I thk there has been homophobia regnisg where those relatnships – those gay relatnships Shakpeare occur.
NO, SHAKPEARE WAS NOT GAY
So, if Shakpeare wasn’t gay, he certaly had a great passn for and an unrstandg of gay relatnships, that’s certaly the se. Actors today’s theatre regularly portray the relatnships as homosexual, and ed actors are often crlo toward anyone who doubts that to be the se.
In Troil and Crsida, Patrocl is moured to be Achill’ “mascule whore” (V, 1, le 17), as is suggted Homer, and certaly the two are very close iendship, though Patrocl do admonish Achill to engage battle by sayg, A woman impunt and mannish grown Is not more loathed than an effemate man In time of actn Aga, on the morn stage this relatnship is often portrayed as obvly, even flagrantly, sexual; but whether Shakpeare saw as such, or the play valoriz homosexualy or bisexualy, is another matter.
“It’s bee fashnable sce the mid-1980s to thk of Shakpeare as gay.