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You wrote:
>>> So, now in the 20th century,
little minds who sit on the internet can cast
some kind of limits on shakespeare and feel
satisfied, well, good for you. <<<<Sorry, but I have carefully re-read my
post, and I "cast no limits."To the contrary, I am against such limiting
ideas as "the sonnets are autobiographical," or
"they are more personal than his other works,"
or "Shakespeare must have been expressing his
homosexuality..." I can think of few notions
more limiting.>>>But stick him in a box if
it makes you feel good. <<<I stuck him in no box. The one who did that is
the person who insisted that the works could somehow
be used as "evidence" of his sexuality. Furthermore,
his bias had determined that the poet was a homosexual.If you believe that fictional works can
be used as evidence of an author's sexual preferences,
then you are, indeed, placing him in a box. And, doing
a great disservice to legitimate scholarship.-Bruce
Posted by Bruce Spielbauer on April 13, 1997 at 16:52:27
In Reply to "Bruce, do you always look through just one lens of your glass?" posted by Bill Routhier on April 12, 1997 at 22:36:54
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