In the 1996 Romeo and Juliet film Mercut drs up as a woman and acts que mp, and I wonred if Mercut was possibly gay
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IS MERCUT GAY?
Sendly I’d like to expla that my recent readg of Mercuts character I was liberately lookg for homosexual tras, thgs that intify wh the LGBT world and wh the character of Mercut, many of the lks are weak at bt, but uld go some way to queerg one of the Bards most outrageo characters. So Mercut is gay bee he don’t like Rosale and says Romeo would be better off wh an Open arse that looks like the u of a Medlar Tree… Is that ? In fact wasn’t until they 1800’s that beg Gay was specifilly ma illegal and punishable, even si your own 4 walls.
IS MERCUT GAY?
So, tim and attus to beg gay weren’t actually that bad at the time. In addn, early morns did not e the terms “homosexual” or “gay. As English scholar Ben Snrs says: “In the Renaissance, the love that dare not speak s name is not homosexualy, but rather any love that dar to pos a woman as worthy of a man’s plete votn.
STARCROSSED: GAY REIMAGG OF ROMEO AND JULIET HEADG TO LONDON STAGE
None of this means Shakpeare was gay. What do this have to do wh beg gay? Not all gay men are effemate, but what our culture has to offer straight culture is the possibily of lookg at societal norms a different way, and that’s what Shakpeare offers too.
” Johae explas that past scholars such as Phillipa Hawker have claimed that there is evince of a homoerotic relatnship between Romeo and Mercut Luhrmann’s film, and “So upbeat is Mercut’s mercurial cross-drsg and mp behavr at the Capulet party that appears as a sign of his transgenr inty” (304). Gog beyond the “rnival” theory, to tomatilly assume that bee Mercut wears a drs that he wants to be a woman would be rrect- there is a whole muny of gay men, the “drag” muny, who drs up and perform as women but have no sire for genr reassignment surgery.
On the assumptn that Mercut is gay, the suatn of a homoerotic relatnship between he and Romeo seems plsible, as Mercut appears to be jealo when Romeo do not pay attentn to him, always sarstilly brgg up Rosale, the girl he thks Romeo is still enamored wh. Sce the oppose of love is not hate but difference, Mercut’s sensive and fensive reactn to the accatn of homosexualy may dite that he is gay.