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Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 2: "Comfort and Despair"

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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Is Shakespeare Gay or Homosexual Based on the Sonnets?

Many commenters say that you can't describe shakespeare as gay or homosexual based on the sonnets. "The terms gay and homosexual did not exist in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries," he says. But at the same time, there are all kinds of words and terms that we use now to describe events in the past, like virus or bacterium - which no one had any concept of at that time.

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