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Odd Portrait Has Many Guessing Shakespeare Was Gay
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Posted on 04/23/2002 7:23:36 AM PDT by Dallas
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posted on
04/23/2002 7:23:36 AM PDT
by
Dallas
To: Dallas
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posted on
04/23/2002 7:26:36 AM PDT
by
jgrubbs
Shakespeare being gay is hardly a news flash.
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posted on
04/23/2002 7:26:47 AM PDT
by
emjsea
To: Dallas
has prompted speculation in British media that Shakespeare was gay. DUH ! He was in the theater wasnt he?
But seriously, wasnt all the female parts back then played by males?
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posted on
04/23/2002 7:40:27 AM PDT
by
Robe
To: Dallas
The picture of the Earl of Southampton, featuring a figure with long, black curly hair, pursed red lips, an earring and a slender right hand That's it. We are kicking him out of the Earl's club.
To: Dallas
"Let's face it -- without Jews, fags and Gypsies there would be no theater!"
-Mel Brooks playing a theatrical actor/producer in 1983's To Be Or Not To Be.
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posted on
04/23/2002 7:45:58 AM PDT
by
Snake65
To: Dallas
Well...that settles it. If Shakespeare was gay, gayness is now a-ok in my book. NOT!
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posted on
04/23/2002 7:46:03 AM PDT
by
mconder
To: Dallas
Who cares? Shakespeare probably didn't write Shakespeare anyway.
Joe Sobran wrote a pretty convincing book that the real author of "Shakespeare's" works was Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. But maybe that guy was gay too.
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posted on
04/23/2002 7:48:04 AM PDT
by
gumbo
To: Dallas
This is nothing more than the homosexuals trying to say that the only great writing, art, etc., came from homosexuals. It was a different world back then; men wore lace and stockings back then. They expressed themselves differently in those days. Just look at all the straight guys running around today with earrings and designer names plastered all over themselves. Does that automatically make them homosexual?
To: Dallas
The Sonnets were inspired not by man-boy love, but by love for God Himself.
Shakespeare's muse was the Lord, his words are the poetry of one enflamed and informed by Divinity.
This BS about the Sonnets being silly little love songs to some Nancy-boy make me mad as hell...I'm bored and sick and tired of it.
People need to look a little deeper, instead of project their movie onto this guy and his work. Hah, as if they would ever happen...hell, I'm doing it right now.
Out, damn spot. This mote in my eye is so troublesome sometimes.
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posted on
04/23/2002 8:05:34 AM PDT
by
jwfiv
To: Robe
He was in the theater wasnt he?Drama fag.
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posted on
04/23/2002 8:08:19 AM PDT
by
geaux
To: Dallas
"I've seen the picture...here let me post it."
To: jwfiv
"Neither a faggot nor a buggard be..."
To: jgrubbs; Dallas
Sure looks like a chick to me. How'd old boy decide it was a she-male, now?
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posted on
04/23/2002 8:09:02 AM PDT
by
maxwell
To: Dallas
How long before we all understand that *everyone* in the past was gay? Geesh, get with the program guys.
To: Dallas
The Brits usually document their research for historical productions extremely thoroughly. When they produced that excellent series "Elizabeth R" with Glenda Jackson back in the 70's, they often depicted men of the court wearing earrings. Granted, they did not appear as effeminately as the portrait of the Earl of Southampton, but maybe that artist used "poetic license." In the portrait, he also is thought to be a teenager which might account for the complexion and delicate features.
Anyway, what does it matter whether Shakespeare might have been gay or not...he (or whoever really wrote those works) was a genius.
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posted on
04/23/2002 8:14:23 AM PDT
by
stanz
To: gumbo
Interesting. William Still has some convincing evidence in his book "The New World Order: The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies" that Sir Frances Bacon actually authored the works of Shakespeare.
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posted on
04/23/2002 8:15:58 AM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
To: Dallas
This is such self serving horsehockey.
Look, anyone with half a brain knows this is just another attempt by militant homosexuals to make their behavior "acceptable".
We had people saying such ridiculous things about Lincoln and George Washington. Given the fact these men were married to women did not deter things in the slightest.
Now, they are going after Shakespeare, inarguably the world's greatest playwright. When is someone going to tell them to sit down and shut up?
PS: Does anyone remember when people tried to suggest the model for the Mona Lisa was none other than Da Vinci himself?
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posted on
04/23/2002 8:21:35 AM PDT
by
Houmatt
To: Dallas
Wan't the old Bard seen around Ft. Marcy Park just about the time Vince was waxed?
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posted on
04/23/2002 8:23:36 AM PDT
by
zarf
To: gumbo
Who cares? Shakespeare probably didn't write Shakespeare anyway. Joe Sobran wrote a pretty convincing book that the real author of "Shakespeare's" works was Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. But maybe that guy was gay too. I've read that some researchers believe Shakespeares' works were actually written by Queen Elizabeth I. I'll look around, see what I can find. Had some interest in this during senior english WAY back in high school. Funny what sometimes surfaces from the past.
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posted on
04/23/2002 8:34:02 AM PDT
by
toddst
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