Anne McElvoy, Hailey Bachrach, Anouska Lester, and Emma Whipday.
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I was talking about a historical male author I dislike because I found his works misogynistic and the person said, "Oh, well I suppose you don't read Shakespeare either." and I was like, "Shakespeare? SHAKESPEARE?!?! Of course I read Shakespeare, that man loved women."
Shakespeare wrote a wide variety of fleshed out female characters. He wrote Damsels in Distress, Cross-dressing Girlbosses, and Complex Female Villains. He wrote a woman who refused to sell her virtue to save her family and then shamed her brother for suggesting it. He wrote Taming of the Shrew and it's opposite, All's Well that Ends Well, in which the wife hunts down and tames the husband. He wrote men who are good because they listen to, trust, and defend women. He wrote women of all kinds. He wrote women who drive the plot and women doomed by the narrative. He wrote women in love and women who pathetically follow a man who doesn't like them and women in hatred. He wrote sensible women and silly women and everything in between of all ages.
I wish modern authors could write women as well as he did.
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Humans, I have found a copy of Much Ado About Nothing with Catherine Tate and David Tennant (2011).
I am not a massive Shakespeare fan, but this is probably my favourite version of the play so far because they have such fun chemistry. If you're a Doctor Who or a 10/14/Donna fan, you might really enjoy this. Tate is PERFECT in this.
EDIT: Lads, she's wearing a suit. You know I cannot resist a woman in a suit.
And if that's not enough, David is dressed like this.
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Shakespeare writing twelfth night: I will create a gender the likes of which you could never imagine
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queer classic lit relationships according to me and me alone
Romeo and Juliet- he/him lesbian and his soft femme gf
Mercutio and Benvolio- the other tragic love story in R&J
Hamlet and Horatio- no explanation needed
Beatrice and Benedick- the B’s in their names stand for bi
Viola/Cesario, Orsino, Olivia, Sebastian, and Antonio- Shakespeare invented the chaotic polycule
Helena and Hermia- who the hell are Demetrius and Lysander i only know these two sapphics
Oberon, Titania, and Puck- they’re a triad your honor
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy- he’s bi, she’s demi, they’re iconic
Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth- only demisexuals could have the patience these two do
Fanny Price and Mary Crawford- get fucking WRECKED Edmund no one even likes you
Emma Woodhouse, Harriet Smith, and Mr. Knightley- Emma has two hands etc etc
Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester- little bi freaks
Jo March and Friedrich Bhaer- two ace dark academia nerds managed to find each other wow love is real
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Is this piece of classic literature actually gay or is the author so misogynistic that he wrote the men as characters who actually think and feel and make decisions, never considering that he could do the same with women, so of course we're going to see chemistry between the men because the women are nowhere near as deeply written?
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Side note:
Sophie Okonedo played two famous Greek women. She was just brilliant as Shakespeare's Cleopatra @ The National Theatre
Also got the chance to see her as Medea @ Soho Palace summer just gone
Awesome woman
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Shakespearean Men believing their wife/betrothed is cheating on them by evidence offered, ranked from most sympathetic to least:
1. Othello, Othello: subject to a premeditated slander campaign, handkerchief used as evidence, takes a while for him to believe it. Understandable, if horrible, and very tragic.
2. Posthumus, Cymbeline: proof in the form of a love token and the description of his wife's body. Also kind of understandable because they were subject to a seperation of unknown length. Murder was a little extreme though...
3. Claudio, Much Ado About Nothing: tricked by a man who literally just tricked him, sees two figures in the dark and a woman calling herself "Hero", immediately willing to believe it. Somewhat understandable, I guess, maybe.
4. Leontes, The Winter's Tale: VIBES. Pure vibes, man.
At some point between 3 and 4, did Shakespeare just lose his faith in humanity?
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