Friday, September 29, 2023

FRONTLINE The Shakespeare Mystery

I am desolate to have to agree with a man who thinks it not impolite to say that the Earl of Oxford and Christopher Marlowe and Francis Bacon had all been (in his slimily inelegant, but what he yet apparently considers to be socially permissible, phrase) "roaring homos"--and that Shakespeare (whoever he may have been) hadn't been--, but he's right about that. And that's the difference between Shakespeare and Marlowe (apart from Marlowe's being, when he's hot, the more magical poet): Shakespeare's straight, Marlowe's gay.

Marlowe, yes, is gay (gay, gay), and Shakespeare's straight--Ma nota bene that what I mean by "straight" is "normally bisexual."  And Marlowe isn't (at all bisexual--being pretty much exclusively a woman-hating, vagina-phobic roaring homo). 

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