The great actor Sir Ian McKellen, who is also well-known as a gay activist, was recently quoted the prs as sayg that Shakpeare himself was probably gay. Inved to ment on this, I poted out that there was nothg new the ia, which for a long time has been equently exprsed pecially bee some of his sons are clearly addrsed to a male.
Contents:
- WAS SHAKPEARE GAY?
- WAS SHAKPEARE GAY?
- SHAKPEARE WAS GAY, WROTE SONS FOR MEN: UK SCHOLAR
- WAS SHAKPEARE GAY, AND DO MATTER?
WAS SHAKPEARE GAY?
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The pretty explic (for this era) homosexual romance of the sons wasn’t some nventn of Elizabethan poetry eher, was pretty unique and th, pretty meangful. And do the prence of all this queerns the sons (and other works of Shakpeare) mean we n ll him a gay in? The dark lady, along wh the fact that we know Shakpeare was married and had children make the ia of claimg Shakpeare as “gay” himself, tricky and also a big potential se of bisexual erasure.
WAS SHAKPEARE GAY?
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However, the qutn: "was Shakpeare gay?
Now is not the time to rehearse them all, but the arguments agast his homosexualy are plex and sophistil, and often take nvenient and homophobic advantage of the sons' built- terpretative slippage – which Shakpeare himself would have need for what we would now ll "plsible niabily", should anyone have felt cled to cry argument favour is simple. First, fallg love wh other men is often a good ditn of homosexualy; and send, as much as I love some of my male iends, I'm never gog to wre 126 poems for them, even the ad on. My not-very-origal theory is that he was forced to nste his homosexual love as wholly pure, meang simply that his lt end up channelled toward the sex he wasn't actually attracted 's here we see the horrible symmetry of the sexual logic of sons, a kd of ltle chiasm wh a half-twist: wh the Young Man he's the grip of a pure love, but stalked by the prence of lt; wh the Dark Lady he's the grip of a pure lt, but stalked by the absence of love.
A mon discsn is whether the fair youth sequence reveals that Shakpeare was gay or bisexual.
SHAKPEARE WAS GAY, WROTE SONS FOR MEN: UK SCHOLAR
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 sonnets *
However, we should, as scholar Dennis Kay remds , be ut of “applyg a morn unrstandg of, and attus toward, homosexualy to early morn culture. (Getty)“It’s bee fashnable sce the mid-1980s to thk of Shakpeare as gay. 57bn of arts supportShakpeare’s bgraphers through the years have noted that his poetry is filled wh gay imagery and sexual Brian Vickers, a visg profsor at Universy College London, is one amic who has prevly mataed that Shakpeare’s lerary material don’t nfirm his sexualy eher way.
“I nnot thk of any rponsible edor who would dismiss the premise of homosexual, as well as heterosexual passn pervadg [the sons], ” Freeman add. Some hold that the publitn of the sons surely upset Shakpeare, whose poems alt wh sndalo forms of love; homoerotic and adultero. Was Shakpeare gay?
WAS SHAKPEARE GAY, AND DO MATTER?
'Was Shakpeare Gay?' - the qutn discsed episo seven of our Let's Talk Shakpeare podst. From the Shakpeare Birthplace Tst. * shakespeare gay sonnets *
Revealgly, ’s often posed ways that draw attentn to the bate: ‘I’ve been told that Shakpeare was gay – is that te? ’ ‘I asked my teacher if Shakpeare was gay and he said no – what do you thk? It’s not that ’s exactly hard to fd a homoerotic sensibily Shakpeare’s works.
It’s not hard to fd homoerotic sensibily Shakpeare’s works: Twelfth Night, Orso falls love wh Car, not realisg he’s a she. ‘Our morn words for sexual orientatn – gay, straight, homosexual, bisexual, heterosexual – are all neteenth or twentieth-century ag’. The poet Don Paterson wr his recent mentary on Shakpeare’s Sons that they are lerary proof posive of his bisexual or gay inty.
For one thg, our morn words for sexual orientatn – gay, straight, homosexual, bisexual, heterosexual – are all neteenth or twentieth-century ag. Most historians are of the view that early morn people didn’t thk of themselv as gay or straight. Most historians are of the view that early morn people didn’t thk of themselv as gay or straight (not that those words rried their morn meangs any se).
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What we now specify as homosexualy was fed to the culture at large, ctoms, practic and social stutns. Wispread same-sex bed-sharg, the high value placed on sgle-genr iendship, and a generally un-pdish attu to bodily functns created an environment which homosexual acts, while technilly illegal, went virtually unreported and unpunished.