A new film adaptatn of Shakpeare's The Merchant of Venice rais the ntroversial qutn of whether the tle character was gay.
Contents:
- IS THERE ANY EVINCE FOR A GAY RELATNSHIP THE MERCHANT OF VENICE?
- WAS THE MERCHANT OF VENICE GAY?
- 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). A new film adaptatn of Shakpeare's The Merchant of Venice rais the ntroversial qutn of whether the tle character was gay.
WAS THE MERCHANT OF VENICE GAY?
"He's not sayg they're gay or they're straight, he's leavg up to his actors.
STAGE REVIEW: ‘THE MERCHANT OF VENICE’ TAK A GAY PATH TO TRAGEDY
I didn't want to be a homosexual love bee that's an easy optn. "Obvly you n emphasise one thg or another, " he Herman Gallob says Shakpeare scholars have not generally nsired a homosexual motivatn for is the thor of Me and Shakpeare: Adventur wh the says he would attribute the kiss to "directorial licence". 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.