Warning: inclusion quotes all of us are forced to read Shakespeare in high school English.
When you are 15 or 16, it doesn't make sense until your teacher discusses core topics with you and you are forced to write papers on them.
One thing that has always been overlooked in my high school English class is how much progress and clarity Shakespeare has made in sex.
His articles are everywhere-and today we can learn five more from here.
In the past few years, Western society has begun to take sexual consent seriously-from the attitude of the past, we have advanced by leaps and bounds (
Or, in fact, not close).
If you look at the latest 1500
However, you will notice that a lot of the content of the play is about consent.
We have a date. rape drugs (
Oberlong put fairy medicine in Titania's eyes)
Hemia was forced by her family to participate in an arranged marriage, and at the other end of the scale, Helena verbally agreed with her lover demiterius in no uncertain terms.
This clearly shows that she has no problem with S & M's "rough behavior": "The more you hit me, the more I please you.
Think of me as your hound.
"There are so many examples of how many of Shakespeare's fans are cunning, so here are a few of the most obvious examples I find: In the process of taming the Raptors, there is a lot of response between pertrucio and Kate about the fact that he wants to put his tongue on her "tail (
Elizabethan slang for the vagina).
In Venus and Adonis, a line is actually written like this: "graze on my lips, if these hills are dry and drooping, where is the delightful fountain "-it's hard to know more about oral sex than that.
Both of these are early suggestions that men will actually put the sexual satisfaction of a female partner before themselves.
Looking for another, even more obvious?
On the evening of the 12 th, the housekeeper Malvolio read a letter that read: "According to my life, this is my lady's hand", these are her C, her U, and her T.
So she became her great P. Read aloud.
Romeo and Juliet is usually the first Shakespeare drama we have come into contact.
It's a tragic story about love and loss, but it's also full of jokes about how eager a man is to have anal sex with a female partner.
As Romeo's best friend, Mercutio, said bluntly: "Oh Romeo, she is, oh, she is an open person --
Ass, you pear!
Again, Shakespeare should be read out loud, and when you say "pop'rin", it clearly becomes the penis joke of "pop' er in.
But like today,than-
If women really want to participate in such activities, Shakespeare's work is clear.
Sir Ian McClaren spent most of his career performing Shakespeare's works, with a deep understanding of the characters, and he believed
Public rumors about Shakespeare being gay or bisexual.
Shakespeare clearly understands gay relationships and plays in some of his supporting roles-notably Antonio and Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice, and Olivia and Viola (cross-
Play saisario)
Night 12
Shakespeare needs more evidence. okay with gay?
There are 18 sonnets, and the other 125 of Shakespeare's poems are written by the poet himself to another person called "fair youth.
Dear reader, this was a few hundred years ago.
These were published in 1609, but they were published in 1640.
Treatment by publisher John Benson
Change poetry by changing pronouns.
Since then, most versions have returned to the original works of Shakespeare --loving texts.
Most people know that the female characters in Shakespeare's plays are performed by men, but this is because women were not actually allowed to perform on stage at that time.
Some critics believe this is the only reason for the gender ambiguity in Shakespeare's works.
However, in many works of Shakespeare, women are also dressed as men.
The above 12-night Viola/Rosario role is the biggest example of women having both female and male energy.
In history, female actors have also brought about gender
For centuries, women have played Hamlet, Caesar and plosboro from the storm.
All this tells us that Shakespeare has an understanding of what we know (in 2018)
In fact, the gender of many people is mobile and has the temperament of men and women.
The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.