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» Queering Shakespeare at the RSC
So what was Bartlett doing and why did he do it? In two words, he was queering Shakespeare. Queer theory began as a challenge to a cultural hegemony which validates a heterosexual norm and marginalises other sexual identities. From there it widened to challenge the concept of divisive social norms altogether, as Michael Warner said in the introduction to his book, Fear of a Queer Planet, ‘Queer gets a critical edge by defining itself against the normal rather than the heterosexual… We might even say that queer politics opposes society itself.’
Submitted by Andrew Cowie.
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