Name: Rachel 
So I actually finished a ton of my work yesterday. And it feels really good to have a day where th only reading I have to get done is for later in the week. So I can head to the gym, watch some movies, maybe see some friends. Very nice.
Anyways, I finished Twelfth Night last night and all I can think is “Holy Queerness, Batman!”
The amount of subtle gayness with Olivia in love with Cesario who is really Viola and Viola dressed as Cesario in love with Orsino and Orsino totally dug the whole Cesario thing because when Viola revealed herself he made mentions of her maleness when he proposed to her. Plus Antonio was totally digging Sebastian.
Oh William Shakespeare, you’re so very Queer. Hey look, that could be iambic pentameter if you… did… something to it. It’s 10 syllables…
And it’s not just Twelfth Night… there’s gayness everywhere. Especially in this passage from Coriolanus.
Aufidius to Caius Martius:
Let me twine
Mine arms about that body, where against
My grained ash an hundred times hath broke
And scarr’d the moon with splinters: here I clip
The anvil of my sword, and do contest
As hotly and as nobly with thy love
As ever in ambitious strength I did
Contend against thy valour. Know thou first,
I loved the maid I married; never man
Sigh’d truer breath; but that I see thee here,
Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart
Than when I first my wedded mistress saw
Bestride my threshold. Why, thou Mars! I tell thee,
We have a power on foot; and I had purpose
Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn,
Or lose mine arm for’t: thou hast beat me out
Twelve several times, and I have nightly since
Dreamt of encounters ‘twixt thyself and me;
We have been down together in my sleep,
Unbuckling helms, fisting each other’s throat,
And waked half dead with nothing.
