“Shakespeare’s Queer Children” argues that Shakespeare is not the exclusive possession of any one social group or cultural formation, but has provided an enabling and empowering resource which has allowed “other” radical voices to be heard, often in the face of forces which would consign them to insignificance, marginalization or oppression. The book stages a series of detailed, closely contextualized readings of significant texts and moments in the cultural history of Shakespeare, including the trials of Oscar Wilde, Angela Carter’s “Wise Children”, the debate over “political correctness” and the literary curriculum, and Derek Jarman’s films. Chedgzoy argues that if Shakespeare is not of an age but for all time, it is surely not because his works transcend or obliterate historical and cultural differences, but because they offer a space where conflicting desires - aesthetic, social and erotic - can be enacted, explored and transformed.
Submitted by theshakespearegirlnovel. Thank you!
Your mod has finally gotten around to emptying out several things that were sitting in his inbox and his to-queue bookmark, so you can expect to see several new posts over the next few days. To keep up the influx of content, please submit anything you have been sitting on that is even remotely related to queer Shakespeare! I’d like to get this place up and running again.
Tchy
It would be marvellous of you to drop something in the submit box.
Regards,
The Management
p.s. I fixed the link. It’ll actually go to the submit box now.
p.p.s. I am clearly the best at life.
We’ve finally got some things back in the queue and I’d like to keep it that way! To that end, I’d like to invite you all to submit whatever tickles your fancy—art, fic, videos, articles, information, essays, or anything else you can think of, and anything relating to gender, sexuality, or anything else you think falls under the label of queer!
And, once again, feel free to submit your own creations! We encourage your narcissism if it gives us content.
I know at least a couple of you (including you, the person who reblogged something on this sort of topic within the last 24 hours that is actually what reminded me I wanted to do this post, and also you, the person who started a tumblr specifically about this) may be able to help me answer at least one of the following questions, all of which concern…
The questions are as follows:
- How awesome does this look?
- Have you read it?
- If you answered ‘yes’ to question 2: is it as awesome as it looks?
- If you answered ‘yes’ to question 2: how advanced does my grasp of queer theory have to be before I can get any benefit out of it?
- If you answered ‘yes’ to question 2: how advanced does my grasp of Shakespeare have to be before I can get any benefit out of it?
- If you answered ‘no’ to question 2: doesn’t this look awesome?
- Is it too much that the title of this post is a pun on the title of a book that’s already another pun?
Thank you very much for your assistance with these inquiries.
Too good not to reblog. Plus, maybe some of you could help him out.
Have y’all seen this? Just bought it today. My favorite essay so far is Heather Love’s on Macbeth but I’m a fan of the title for the reading of Midsummer Night’s Dream… Shakespeare’s Ass Play.
[A book cover. The top half is taken up by paintings of Shakespeare with brightly coloured makeup, stars, and other patterns on his face. The bottom half is black and includes the title, “Shakesqueer,” with the subtitle “A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare.” The editor is Madhavi Menon.]
(Submitted by maybesomedaydoctorj.)
James and I haven’t stumbled across anything new, and the blog has been rather dead for a while. With so many followers, some of you must have something to share!
Feel free to submit your own works, too! We encourage narcissism if it gives us content!
I’d just like to remind everyone that we take submissions—in fact, we would really like them! There are still a couple of things in the queue, but beyond that, we have very little to share, and we would like to spread the queer Shakespeare love as widely as possible.
We welcome all things related to sexuality and gender in Shakespeare. This could include fiction, art, videos, recommendations, scholarly articles, information about particular productions or companies, quotes, or just about anything else. They can be things you found or things you made—we’re not picky! We would especially like to welcome submissions of trans or gender-related things, as there has been somewhat of an emphasis on queer sexuality so far (but of course we are still happy to take submissions of a sexuality-related nature if you have something of that sort).
We also have an open ask box. I am open to answering questions and/or making recommendations, and I imagine James would be as well.
Finally, of course, we would love for you to share this blog around and find us more followers. We like followers!
LA Femme Shakes is a women’s theatre company founded by Vanessa Luke in order to “queer the works of Shakespeare, as well as modern and contemporary authors.” Artists of any gender are welcome to the troupe, as long as they are open to non-traditional casting.
Our playfulness will not only allow women and others to explore new roles, but also illuminate in the plays juicy topics such as sexuality, sex, transgenderism, racism, classism and their relationships to gender in the here and now. Future goals of this troupe include supporting women and gender-bending productions of modern and classic plays on the beach, as well as introduction of new female, queer, and transgender playwrights, techies, and designers.
