Shakespeare & friendship – Great post from the British Library explaining the different ways Elizabethans viewed friendship. MND portrays intense, complicated friendships between both friends and women. Will Tosh considers how these reflect, and sometimes challenge, Elizabethan ideas about what it meant to be a friend.
Tag: gender
Resource: Gender & Sexuality in MND (PDF)
“Use Me But as Your Spaniel”: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Early Modern Sexualities – Part of a scholarly article examining how Queer and Feminist scholars have variously interpreted MND. The author argues that simplistic readings of structural inequality deny the lived experiences of women and queer people–lives of various paradoxes and sometimes uncomfortable desires. This is dense, but offers two very detailed, illuminating close-readings of key scenes in MND.
