Is Shakespeare Gay?

Sorry for the late post! I wasn't able to get to access the blog site due to some internet problem; but now I can! So from Friday's perspective, most of us finished and brought the Canterbury Parody assignment except for Rachel who decided to do the prologue. Overall, everyone did phenomenal job and we also received a marble! Yay! Keep up the work! Then I was able to present my bonus project on Black Plague and how it changed the feudalism in England. Then, it was our time to get back to our text books and read some amazing love (luuube) poetry (Did I write it right?). One was about a young shepherd offering his love to the girl with materialistic goods; but the other one was a response to the shepherd's proposal about girl "kindly" refusing him. We went on a discussion of the characteristic of both poetry and shepherd's flaw in his approach to his love. Lastly, we got into Sonnet and read Sonnet 29 and 130. We learned that Sonnet was mainly a love theme which I was mind blown about.

I was really curious what made Shakespeare gay but here are some points I found on the internet that prove him gay:

1. The first 124 out of 156 Sonnets are widely known to be accepted as a love poem to a man.

2. All of Shakespeare's Sonnets are dedicated to "Mr.W.H"

3. "Sonnet 126" begins "O thou, my lovely boy." And, while I'm not sure if Shakespeare envisioned himself the Day Man or Night Man -- or if the lovely boy is a metaphor -- this poem (the 126th of the 126 man- directed sonnets) is one of the only ones that just comes right out and declares its man slant.  

4. In his plays, there are so many cross-dressing plays when guys have to have women roles. Women were not allowed to act back then. 

Homework time: 

1. Make sure you read those 20 pages of Renaissance in your text book starting from page 128 by Tuesday.  

2. Our Quiz will be also on Tuesday so study hard! The breakdown of the quiz is on the previous blog in case anyone missed it. 

Have a great day!