Comments | mab2701: English Lit fun

mab2701

English Lit fun

May 20, 2009 20:56

We've gotten through most of the semester of Lit and so far it's been a struggle for pretty much anyone who isn't me. Personally i've loved it but apparently i'm the only one. Anyway todays lesson was particularly funny and half of it was because no-one listened to me last week or actually did the readings ( Read more... )

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charis_kalos May 22 2009, 03:07:17 UTC

"Why was Shakespeare writing about lesbians?"

'Cos the man was bisexual!

He thought Cesario was a nickname and that two girls were hooking up.

Well, they pretty much are! It's a massively homoerotic play!

the younger ones in particular were completely shocked that Shakespeare wrote sexual innuendos and puns

A common response for centuries - hence the popularity of Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare with all the lines that could bring a blush to the maiden cheek removed.

Well Done on the HD, BTW.

mab2701 May 23 2009, 00:42:34 UTC

See you know that, I know that, my tutor would know that but the class is having enough issues with the text that they are missing the gay subtext.

Hell half of this class still use "that's gay" when they don't like something and the problems we've had in the Education lessons about teen sexuality mean you can't point out that stuff without getting into an argument.

Still trying to knock some sense into their heads. (We had to skip the Donne poem to Sappho because of time which dissapointed me cause i was planning on having lots of fun playing with their heads with that one).

Thanks!

charis_kalos May 23 2009, 03:18:01 UTC

Oh, it's always fun toying with the minds of the impressionable young, especially in terms of the ways that non-heterosexuality has been seen in other times and places.

The "that's gay" thing really annoys me. By the end of my time in college the little dears who did it had moved to: "That's so gay - oh, sorry A." They recognised that I found it offensive, but couldn't quite get rid of it as an immediate exclamation.

And my seven-year-old nephew has apparently picked up from the school playground that gay=bad fighter. I'm kind of okay with that: gay people are lovers rather than fighters!