Shakespeare: Only An Idiot

[A Midsummer Night's Dream] tells of four young loves, whose longing for each other is hampered by the meddling Puck, dispensing a love-potion at the direction of Oberon, the fairy king.

But forget all that. Thanks to the megalomania of Russell T Davies and the encouragement of our state broadcaster, the original play has been slung, unceremoniously out of the window of Broadcasting House.

Russell T Davies has reworked this comedy I love to include a number of same-sex relationships including a lesbian kiss, to show children 'the real world'

The ending Shakespeare wrote for our pleasure was a group wedding, with the lovers' reconciled, and married alongside Theseus and Hippolyta.

He said: 'It's such a happy ending and it's very male/female, male/female. I wanted to have a man with a man, a man who was dressed as a woman with a man, and a woman with a woman. Because its 2016, that's the world now. And I want children to come and watch this and see the real world in the middle of this fantasy.'

The magical wood - just wasn't magical enough... and the young lovers? Way too heterosexual.

That's the trouble with Shakespeare you see? He was just too straight.

400 years after his death, he needs to get with the times... or the the gay times at the very least.

Davies has reworked this comedy I love to include a number of same-sex relationships including a lesbian kiss, to show children 'the real world'.

Believe me, children see enough of the real world every day without needing it to be contrived into Shakespeare at night.

My kids have mates with two mums, two dads, step-siblings and families only loosely connected by finances. They are growing up into a world where unless you are gender fluid, you're old news.

Davies said 'it's 2016; that's the world now,' adding: 'Only idiots might have a problem with that.'

Katie Hopkins, Daily Mail.

That line again... IT'S 2016, ONLY IDIOTS MIGHT HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT!

PS It's on 'at the end of May'.

Shakespeare: Absolutely

Theatre expert Gregory Doran and his actor partner Sir Antony Sher are convinced England’s greatest playwright was homosexual. The pair insist 128 of his 154 sonnets were addressed to men.

Gregory, artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, claims Solanio and Salerio in The Merchant Of Venice “are a gay couple”. While the two Antonios in Twelfth Night and The Merchant Of Venice were “absolutely gay”.

He told Winq magazine: “I get infuriated in the 21st Century when those two characters are not ”played as gay men. It feels to me to be as outrageous as a white actor playing Othello” .

 

Gregory says the sexes were changed in some editions of his sonnets because “they couldn’t afford for the national icon to be gay”. He added: “It is homophobia.

 

Daily Star.

Zzzz....

Daily Mail: Exclusive!

Getting the Great Bard to write about Sir Cliff is quite a scoop, yes.

Poor sod.

Shakespeare: Shall I Compare Thee To Someone Else's Research?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

PS See if you can tell the difference between Gay Star News 12 things that prove Shakespeare was gay and 11 pieces of evidence that Shakespeare was gay - the first thing that comes up if you Google 'Shakespeare gay'.

Oops!

Gay journalism - beats working!

PS Disappointed GSN's Joe Moron today didn't also rip off this stellar piece; St George - A Gay Saint?
Answer: Probably not.

Thought For The Day: Your Actual Shakespeare

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Sir Toby Belch, Twelfth Night.

Shakespeare: Mad MP Warns Of 'Romeo & Julio' Threat To The Kiddies

“If we are to re-construct official and business documentation and to replace “Husband and Wife” with “spouses” and “partners” where will this stop? Will Shakespeare and Milton and The Holy Bible be re-written also? Will only “correctly” expurgated literature be allowed to be used in the classroom?”

Sir Roger Gale MP writing in a letter to Thanet Extra.
Erm, no.
No, none of this will happen, but thanks for asking.