Fuck Yeah Queer Shakespeare!

hey, i’m starting a zine (riffzine) and this month’s theme is shakespeare – writing submissions are accepted until august 15th. please reblog this link if you or your followers would be interested in sending some stuff in – queer shakespeare fiction/nonfiction is obviously welcome. thanks!

What are your opinions on the Mercutio/Benvolio ship? Because I am ALL ABOUT THAT LIFE!!! Also I love your blog so so much :)

Found this wonderful blog yesterday and browsed through all the pages. Was grinning and inwardly squealing the whole way. Life is all good. <3 You even made "Othello" more interesting to me, and I'll reread in a whole new light~ THANK YOU. YOU DO THE PUBLIC A GREAT SERVICE!!!

last year i saw midsummer at the stratford festival (canada) and lysander was played by a girl, so it made the whole demetrius chasing after hermia, a total lesbian. it was so beautiful <3 <3 <3

Unfortunately, A Midsummer Night's Dream was not queer at all. To the extent that the Indian boy was played by a girl to make their moments with Oberon less gay and Puck was changed to a drug addict dependent on the 'fairy dust' that Oberon gave him so no romance there either. :(

I'm going to see A Midsummer Nights Dream in a couple of days. I'm so excited, it will be my first live Shakespeare experience! I hope it will be as queer as the Globe version.

I saw the RSC's latest Merchant of Venice, too, and it was phenomenal, like Antonio kisses Bassanio during the trial scene while Portia is there, in disguise, watching them, and then she has to save the man she now knows that her husband is in love with. also it was probably the most amount of kissing I've seen in a play, queer or otherwise. (and Nerissa is played by a disabled actress which I think was also great!)

So I saw the current(?) RSC version of Merchant of Venice a few weeks ago, and it is seriously queer. Like, Antonio and Bassiano frequently making out on stage, stripping each other, Portia basically accepts she's cuckolded at the end queer. It was done incredibly!

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i did approximately the same thing as the last anon, in my sophomore year of high school, we were supposed to write a paper arguing for our personal interpretation of iagos motives, so i wrote mine on him possibly being in love with othello. i got a d on the grounds that the teacher "just didnt see it". my junior year i was an assistant in that same class, and shed completely stolen my argument and was using it to teach? when i brought it up she denied ever having read my paper?? im still salty

We were reading Othello in AP Lit last year and I convinced the entire class that Othello and Iago had a thing. I wrote a paper detailing their love and got extra credit points for it, the teacher read it aloud to the class, and I have "forever ruined" Othello for her. I feel proud.

I can't believe no one on this blog has talked about Shakespeare's R&J! It's a wonderful queering of Romeo and Juliet that uses four actors, and the original text to tell the story of four students exploring their identities over one magical night. It's usually preformed with 4 men but it is sometimes preformed with 4 women. It is very gay and beautiful.

In my high schools production of Midsummer nights dream during the scene where Lysander and Demetrius are both chasing after Helena under the influence of the magic flower, the director blocked it so the two "accidentally" kiss;) it's mostly for comedic effect, but my inner queer Shakespeare does a happy dance every time we rehearse that scene.