Merry Christmas, Shakespeare lovers.
I critiqued a thing and did my best to not muck things up when chatting about a classic as it might relate to my darling gay and trans friends.
Also, I accidentally did a lie.
I looked up the Australian Twelfth Night (featuring Geoffrey Rush, by the way: • Video ). I knew quite well it was shot in 1986, but for some reason, 1988 came out of my face while on camera.
My apologies.
00:56 A little history on Twelfth Night
01:44 Twelfth Night Synopsis
03:24 Some straight subtext
04:58 Gay and Trans attitudes in 1601 / 1602
06:09 Shakespeare and gender attitudes today
If you'd rather not take my word for the junk I said in the video (you don't trust me, eh? I like that. I respect that), check out some of the semi-academic stuff referenced in the video:
Theatre Talk with Stephen Fry:
• Theater Talk • Stephe...
Charles, Casey. "Gender Trouble in Twelfth Night". Theatre Journal. Vol. 49, No. 2 (1997):
www.academia.e...
(also, I nipped the "No work during the Twelve Days of Christmas" from a Lucy Worsley Christmas documentary a couple years back. Alas, she's been a busy lady since then, and I ran out of stamina to seek out the Christmas special thingy in which she chats about binding the spinners' spinning wheel with holly to discourage her from sneaking in work during the holidays, but I swear I didn't pull that out of thin air)
In case you're curious what all's in this sucker apart from a more-or-less trustworthy Twelfth Night summary, I'd say there's room for a trans reading of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, but I struggle to see how anyone could see it as anything else. Other (smarter) people with Twelfth Night Analysis under their belt, might disagree with me, but if Steven Fry is to be believed, not only were cis-hets expected to laugh at Twelfth Night's Globe Theatre premiere, Shakespeare had every reason to believe they would laugh their pantaloons off.
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