Shakespeare's Sex Life
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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Shakespeare's Fascination With Sex and Gender
Shakespeare cannot resist putting filth into his plays. He's got a fascination with sex and gender that runs like a scene through everything he wrote. It's kind of trendy and interesting call to go back and do a queer reading of texts. But there's a lot of it in Shakespeare. There is. I was of the generation that perhaps a few of the boardy jokes were explained to me with diagrams but queer sex No. No. And Shakespeare makes it easy to say no, no, no because he tends to give us utterly heteronormative endings.
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