Shakespeare And Sexuality

Greenstadt, Amy. "'Read It In Me': the Authors Will in 'Lucrece.'" Shakespeare Quarterly. 57.1 (Spring 2006): 45-70. JStore. Web. 18 February 2014.

Drugs are a serious problem in today’s world; they are becoming more accessible and increasingly affordable to everyone, including teenagers, who seem to be especially vulnerable to falling into this endless pit of doom. In order to reduce drug offense rates, there need to be firm laws that dictate the consequences for major offenses. Mandatory minimum sentences effectively fulfill this, by instilling fear into those who contemplate abusing or selling drugs, and they make sure drug offenders are held accountable for their actions by punishing more reprehensible crimes and decreasing bias in the court setting.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie once stated,"The problem with gender is that it prescribes how [someone] should be rather than recognizing how  [they] are."William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet and Jeanne Gerlach, Rudolph Almasy, and Rebecca Daniel's article "Revisiting Shakespeare and Gender" explore the ideals of men and women in the sixteenth-century society of  England and Italy. Shakespeare is telling  a story set in Verona, Italy of how the two protagonists, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet’s, young love and the feuding of their families caused the deaths of them. The Elizabethan Era women are expected to show “obedience”,”weak[ness]”,and “silence” in regards to men, in Shakespeare’s plays he challenges the ideas that women cannot

By examining Shakespeare’s treatment of familial ties in his plays The Life and Death of King John and The Winter’s Tale, we can see how his attitudes and opinions towards family relationships evolved. In King John (written between 1594 and 1596), Shakespeare adopts what was then a fairly conventional attitude towards family relationships: his characters never question the highly patriarchal family hierarchy. They also assume that the majority of wives will be unfaithful, simply because they are female—however, they take the charge of adultery rather lightly. By contrast, in The Winter’s Tale (written between 1610 and 1611), he adopts a much more progressive, feminist view of family

When Shakespeare wrote his plays, theatre companies were only using male actors; female parts were played by adolescent boys. Although boy actors were seen as the trainees and they would eventually play male roles when they were experienced and old enough, some of the most interesting and challenging roles in Shakespeare plays are women. Why would he write big female roles when there weren’t female actors? People believe that he wrote specific parts for specific actors; some boy actors might had become so good at playing women that they inspired Shakespeare to write those significant female parts.

It is an interesting notion that Rosalind acknowledges that because of her uncommon height and with some flourishes from a disguise she can easily pass for as a man. Even more interesting is that although she is more than common tall, an attribute assigned to men, Orlando still found himself falling in love with her. Also, Rosalind takes on the new name and role of Ganymede while Celia becomes Aliena, Ganymede’s sister. Rosalind’s going under the disguise of a man and her choice of Ganymede as her new name is another effect of Shakespeare’s desire to incorporate blurred lines of gender and sexuality within the play. Ganymede, a male, is played by Rosalind, a female, who is played by a male actor therein blurring the lines of gender to the point that there is no line. Equally as important to the blurring of the lines is the choice of the name Ganymede, who was the young boy cupbearer to Jupiter and more importantly his homosexual lover. The implications of such a name generate questions about early theater which took a great amount of inspiration from Greek and Roman Mythologies which are famous for their lewd sexual activities such as sodomy, same-sex relationships, and orgies. After having walked for miles in the forest of Arden Rosalind as Ganymede exclaims “O Jupiter, how weary are my spirits!” seemingly taking on the role of Ganymede and even swearing by his god and lover (2.4.1). Again this continues to fortify the complexities of gender and sexuality and their

William Shakespeare's plays spread a variety of subjects concentrated on sexuality. The most steady and underscored point is homoeroticism. The most consistent and emphasized topic is homoeroticism. You can define Homoeroticism as a “Concerning or arousing sexual desire centered on a person of the same sex” (Oxford, 2016). ). The emphasis on homoeroticism originates from the absence of females in front of an audience amid Shakespearian and early English times.

Derek Korff-Korn Shakespeare Dr. Honig–12th Grade Shakespeare’s Openness to Homosexuality (Prior to the 21st Century) Twelfth Night is a romantic comedy written by William Shakespeare around the early 1600’s, as an entertainment for the holiday of the Twelfth Night. It is a play that discusses issues that are incredibly sensitive, even by today’s standards. Homosexuality is the basis of a significant amount of deliberation in this day and age, However, Shakespeare wrote this work in the early seventeenth century, considering the topic of homosexual yearnings through humor and wit. While there is no specific evidence of Shakespeare’s personal opinions on the matter, his dealing with homosexuality in this play, especially through the relationship

This weeks’ discussion board is about feminist publication, and I chose the “Ms. Magazine”. I chose this magazine because I thought the name of the magazine was familiar to me, but I was wrong and after I downloaded the magazine I found that it was totally different than I had imagined. I downloaded the Ms. Magazine and the welcome included the statement that Ms. Magazine is the largest feminist publication in the world. It also states that “For over 40 years, Ms. has been Reporting, Rebelling, and Truth-telling”. The cover of the magazine has a picture of Wonder Woman that is has the same outfit and same color hair as the original Wonder Woman but, you can see and feel a different spirit about the Wonder Woman on the cover of this magazine. The articles I chose were “The Naked Man at the Door”, “Mercy Denied”, and “Bad Girl, Good Girl: Zines Doing Feminism”.

“A man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal”. Regarded as the greatest writer in the western culture, William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan era playwright, poet and actor from Warwickshire, England. Shakespeare was a profound master of language, his ability to use language to exploit notions of the human condition is what made his works so revolutionary and unique. Human condition is the characteristics, key events and situations, which compose the essentials of human existence, such as conflict, desire and mortality. Good morning Ms Pacey and fellow students, today I will be examining and discussing the timelessness of Shakespeare’s plays, in particular, Hamlet. Aspects of the human condition revenge

The movie that is being compared to a story here is one of the all-time best. The main theme portrayed in "Shakespeare in Love" is a love that is never meant to be. "Shakespeare in Love" parallels the play Shakespeare is currently working on, Romeo and Juliet, in which love is not meant to be due to the many obstacles in the way. Shakespeare's life in the film is very comparable to Romeo's life in Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare's life in the film and the play he is writing has several similarities and differences. In my opinion, this is one of the best movies and books to compare.

With every great story line comes a theme. William Shakespeare created an art of intertwining often unrecognizable themes within his plays. In Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice, one hidden theme is the idea of homosexuality. This theme might not have even been noticed until modern Shakespeare fans discovered them. According to Alan Bray’s book, Homosexuality in Renaissance England, “the modern image of ‘the homosexual’ cannot be applied to the early modern period, when homosexual behavior was viewed in terms of the sexual act and not an individual's broader identity.” (Columbia University Press). This difference between homosexuality as a “sexual act” and an

Shakespeare examines love in two different ways in Sonnets 116 and 130. In the first, love is treated in its most ideal form as an uncompromising force (indeed, as the greatest force in the universe); in the latter sonnet, Shakespeare treats love from a more practical aspect: it is viewed simply and realistically without ornament. Yet both sonnets are justifiable in and of themselves, for neither misrepresents love or speaks of it slightingly. Indeed, Shakespeare illustrates two qualities of love in the two sonnets: its potential and its objectivity. This paper will compare and contrast the two sonnets by Shakespeare and show how they represent two different attitudes to love.

After studying the sonnet of Shakespeare, I think if the emotion between two men is only called male friendship, Shakespeare‟s sonnets assert too much love to be addressed to a man. It seems ridiculous that Shakespeare, a moral man addressed abundant affectionate sonnets to men. His poems use language of love: “lord of love”, “eternal love”, “my lovely boy”, “my friend and I are one”, “thou mine, I thine”. Those languages sometimes can be regarded as non-sexual friendship, in Shakespeare‟s work; they are certainly the language of sexual love. Many of the sonnets are saturated in the language of longing and desire; they showed some sorrow about the lacking of the male friend‟s “sweet love”. There are many explicit and implicit clues in the

Shakespeare, who wrote the sonnets in 1609, expresses his own feelings through his greatest work of literature. The theme of love in the poems reflect thoughts from the Renaissance period. Love is one of many components of Shakespeare’s life shown in the sonnets. Love can be defined in many ways other than a strong affection for a lover. In Shakespeare’s sonnets, the concept of love can be seen through many uncommon means such as the love of life before death in “Sonnet 73,” love in marriage in “Sonnet 116,” love through sexual desire in “Sonnet 129,” and love through nature in “Sonnet 130,” proving that love can be expressed through many different feelings and emotions.