Contents:
- IS THERE ANY EVINCE FOR A GAY RELATNSHIP THE MERCHANT OF VENICE?
- STAGE REVIEW: ‘THE MERCHANT OF VENICE’ TAK A GAY PATH TO TRAGEDY
IS THERE ANY EVINCE FOR A GAY RELATNSHIP THE MERCHANT OF VENICE?
The RSC webse has a 1965 productn wh "the unmistakeable suggtn of a homosexual dimensn to the relatnship between Bassan and Anton". It uld be showg them as gay or bisexual, or uld jt be showg the difference male iendships across different plac and tim. More direct discsn of queerns - or jt bg the bullet and showg the characters as gay - seems to start the late 1970s, gog by Joseph Pequey's The Two Antons and Same-Sex Love Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice (PDF).
One of the tertg issu the play, the Merchant of Venice wrten by Shakpeare that still has been discsg till now the twentieth one century is whether the relatnship between Anton and Bassan is homosexualy or is jt a ep timacy of male iendship. This say will foc on the aspect which will support the prupposn that is the relatnship between Anton and Bassan is homosexualy and also foc on the aspect that will support the prupposn that is the relatnship between Anton and Bassan is jt a ep timacy of male iendship and at last I will ntemplate all of the aspects and suggt the ncln of the prupposn.
STAGE REVIEW: ‘THE MERCHANT OF VENICE’ TAK A GAY PATH TO TRAGEDY
There are numero aspects which will support the prupposn that is the relatnship between Anton and Bassan is homosexualy such as the plot which shows tentn, actn, feelg and nflict of Anton and Bassan, the siary between Anton and Portia about their sacrifice for Bassan, spicn, and jealoy of Portia toward the relatnship between her hband, Bassan and his close iend Anton and the last is the difference between the relatnship of Anton and Bassan vers Anton and other iends which will emphasize the homosexualy of Anton and Bassan. You will see that the plot of the Merchant of Venice allows the rear to see Anton’s actn and feelg as a homosexual person bee his feelg and actn toward Bassan seem to be more profound than jt a iend as n be seen that at first we see that Anton is sad bee his beloved iend love someone else and even though Bassan make him hurt Anton is still willg to do anythg orr to help Bassan even he has to risk his life by borrowg the money om Shylock, his enemy.
This speech also shows Anton’s jealoy as n be seen om his sire that he wants Bassan to tell his wife, Portia that he too lov Bassan and n give everythg to him cludg his life and if is not bee Anton’s jealoy and homosexual love, then why he wants Portia to know that he also lov her hband too. Moreover, Portia’s jealoy and spicn are also one of the numero aspects which n support homosexualy between Anton and Bassan.
At last, the rear n see that Portia’s jealoy and spicn prented through the trial scene and rg scene n nicely support the prumptn about the relatnship between Anton and Bassan that they are not jt male iend relatnship but is more like a homosexual relatnship. Even though The Merchant of Venice has numero the aspects which support the homosexualy the relatnship between Anton and Bassan but there also has the aspects ditg that the relatnship between Anton and Bassan is jt a ep timacy of male iendship. Acrdg to numero rearchers that I had been read om the ter, a lot of them suggt that there is no such a thg as homosexualy or a gay Elizabethan.