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I'm amazed at the people who say understanding Shakespeare's sexuality
isn't integral to engaging with his work. It's central to
an understanding of the sonnets, for example, arguably the
greatest poetry in English.It's central to understanding his rare ability (among male writers)
to create flesh-and-blood women. It throws a whole new light
on the multitude of sexually ambiguous characters he created--
a boy actor playing a girl dressed up as a boy courted by a girl,
etc. It speaks to his deep sense of divison and contraries and
the almost ironic dialectics of his most characteristic language,
e.g. "and nothing is but what is not." (Macbeth).It's only the sexually hung up who treat the issue as a
scandal or a topic people should just shut up about. Everything
about an author is relevant.Posted by Professor Mike on April 09, 1997 at 08:59:49
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