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[shadowkat]

Well, this is interesting...James Marsters decided to do Lectures on Shakespearean Plays via Youtube Segments. First one is Macbeth, including the history behind the play, along with the film and theaterical history.

He must have gotten bored, and decided to come up with a new way to interact with people and make money off of subscribers.

The pandemic has resulted in actors coming up with all sorts of interesting money-making ideas. One of the actors in General Hospital does mental health stories.

Anyhow, he's talking about how Shakespeare was most likely a bi-sexual Catholic. (I did not know that.)

I'm listening to it, not watching it. I don't like watching people talking to me on youtube. I just listen to them.

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[trepkos]

Shakespeare wrote sonnets to both sexes - there is still no certainty over which young man he was in love with. Religion was tricky back then - you had to be whatever the monarch was at the time, or hide your faith.

[mefisto]

There's a very good chance Shakespeare was Catholic; other historians have collected the (sparse) evidence of that. I hadn't heard the theory that he was bisexual though (got to be careful about using modern terms).

[shadowkat]

From reading his plays, I have a feeling he was rather gender and sexuality wise fluid? Although, back then men did have to play all the roles - so hard to know for certain. But it certainly appeared that way.

Marsters cites... Will in the World - How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt as his source material.

[shadowkat]

See response to the post below. Marsters cites Stephen Greenblatt's biography of Shakespeare as his source material.

But, yes, I think Shakespeare was rather gender and sexual orientation fluid - at least from his plays and sonnets.