On Apr 25, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Dennis Redmond wrote:
> But the delicious irony lost on the neocon knuckleheads is that
> Shakespeare was, as close readers of the sonnets have shown,
> fabulously
> gay, occasionally anti-royalist and pro-plebian, and generally smitten
> with the young black men working in Britain's ports as sailors.
Yeah, the canon is full of perverts. Even the American canon. Melville, total flamer. And Whitman, my god. Good thing they don't understand middle English or they'd be trying to get Chaucer out of the libraries.
Doug