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WAS SHAKPEARE GAY?
'Was Shakpeare Gay?' - the qutn discsed episo seven of our Let's Talk Shakpeare podst. From the Shakpeare Birthplace Tst. * is captain 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.
WAS SHAKPEARE GAY?
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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. 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.
WAS SHAKPEARE GAY?THAT IS THE 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. 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.