Shakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare. Exploring what is odd, eccentric, and unexpected in the Bard’s plays and poems, these theorists highlight not only the many ways that Shakespeare can be queered but also the many ways that Shakespeare can enrich queer theory. This innovative anthology reveals an early modern playwright insistently returning to questions of language, identity, and temporality, themes central to contemporary queer theory. Since many of the contributors do not study early modern literature, Shakesqueer takes queer theory back and brings Shakespeare forward, challenging the chronological confinement of queer theory to the last two hundred years. The book also challenges conceptual certainties that have narrowly equated queerness with homosexuality. Chasing all manner of stray desires through every one of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, the contributors cross temporal, animal, theoretical, and sexual boundaries with abandon. Claiming adherence to no one school of thought, the essays consider The Winter’s Tale alongside network TV, Hamlet in relation to the death drive, King John as a history of queer theory, and Much Ado About Nothing in tune with a Sondheim musical. Together they expand the reach of queerness and queer critique across chronologies, methodologies, and bodies.
>>24773103>OHHHH GOOOOOOD IM GOOOONNAAA COOOOOONECT THIS TO MY GENTOOOOOOOLS COOOOONCEPTUALLYYYY AAHHHHH
>queer theoristsWhat are this
Shakespeare scholars will write about literally anything before admitting that the plays are actually by de Vere. Sad.
>>24773236Men wearing denim booty shorts
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>>24773103there is a lot of actually queer stuff in shakespeare, and it's theater so it's a breeding ground for queers. this is a really bad combination. i was looking forward to seeing some shakespeare in the park in my new city, only to find out they're "adaptations" by they/thems to make them all about FtMs and drag queens. like i just want to see a normal twelfth night please.
why are queer people so predictably similar to eachother in terms of beliefs, aesthetic appearance and culture?
>Exploring what is odd, eccentric, and unexpected in the Bard’s plays and poemsIs this 'queerness' always tied to homosexuality or do they just mean anything out of the ordinary
>>24773408Congratulations you have dethroned OP as the gayest poster in this thread
>>24773429I partly agree but at a certain point it becomes difficult to believe that the greatest poetry in the English language fell from the sky just like that.
>>24773937>or do they just mean anything out of the ordinary"In a sense, queer theory is the study of what we as a society deem as “normal” and why these assumptions exist in the first place. It seeks to understand who benefits from and who is “othered” or isolated by these constructs.">https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/10/queer-theory-101-matters/By their definition Caliban is Queer as is the moor and Gazans. Using ambiguity to inflate their numbers to be more powerful than they are.
>>24774186there’s nothing strange about the fact that we have no complete and authentic biography of shakespeare. for that matter we have no complete or authentic biography of marlowe, greene, peele, jonson or burbage. it was not an age of biography.the almost unbelievable quantity of heaven-sent beauty would be less understandable from bacon or de vere or any busy man of affairs than from shakespeare, who very evidently buried himself in his work.
>>24773937Just fags injecting themselves into everything like an HIV infected needle. Ignore.
>>24773236Grant-funded turbofaggots.
>>24774266>we have no complete or authentic biography of marlowe, greene, peele, jonson or burbageThe difference is that we have more information about them than we have about Shakespeare. They seem like real personalities, who interacted with their time and have been thoroughly described by it, whereas Shakespeare is still a mystery.
>>24774273Shakespeare was a faggot
>>24774776even if we knew no more than the ‘five facts’ (and we do - considerably more), it shouldn’t be considered strange. we shouldn’t get excited and say ‘shakespeare never lived. bacon wrote his plays.’ shakespeare’s record is neither unusually thin nor unusually rich - it’s typical for his class and time. people want a romantic enigma.
>>24774801Nta and not trying to belittle you but are you writing this being at all familiar with the coincidences between de Vere's life and the works of Shakespeare? With the typogtaphic ciphers Oxfordians find in his works? With de Vere being referenced as the author by later writers? If not you should look into Alexander Waugh's youtube channel, although I admit that at times his letter counting seems too much even for me. I myself used to be strongly against Oxfordianism because the only source of Oxfordian arguments I had were Stratfordian attempts at refuting them, but as I discovered they were clearly dishonest.
>>24774842hidden codes in texts are notoriously prone to confirmation bias.i’ve heard the argument that he marked correspondent passages in his bible. there are roughly 1000 verses marked in the de vere bible, and shakespeare alluded to at least 2000 bible verses in his works. roughly 80 of the marked verses have parallels to shakespeare. 80 of 1000 underlined passages showing up in 2000 allusions doesn’t seem any more than random overlap. the faerie queene is 1/3 the size of shakespeare’s complete works and alludes to 35 of de vere’s marked verses.
