Shakespeare's Sex Life
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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Hamlet and Ophelia
Shakespeare is a difficult character to get hold of because we don't know much about him, the actual person. We all project what we want Shakespeare to be like and it's not just about authorship. Do we want him to be a happily married, heterosexual guy in touch with his values? Or do we want him as kind of wild actor, escaping domesticity and London? So whichever way you go, he was saying what we would say in terms of sexual identity. And that brings me to my big point: I've grappled with this because I have to talk about poison as chalice.
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