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\"shakespeare\"<\/a>In a brilliantly titled essay<\/a> my friend Joseph Pearce dismantles the current idiocy that William Shakespeare was gay.<\/p>\n

Contrary to Friedlander\u2019s own glib acceptance of the myth of Shakespeare\u2019s homosexuality, isn\u2019t it unlikely that Shakespeare would have escaped punishment in a culture in which homosexual practice was punishable by death if the sonnets were so transparently \u201cqueer\u201d as \u201cqueer theorists\u201d proclaim them to be? Isn\u2019t it more likely that Shakespeare\u2019s love for the person to whom the sonnets is addressed is innocent and that the critics are guilty of seeing bawdy innuendo when they should be seeing the love of one person for another, staring at the gutter when they should be looking with the poet at the stars?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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