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Secondly, close female friendship, especially between young girls, is absolutely an intimate force, and to me, that is more what is described in the play. Could you pull off a production with a lesbian subtext between the two? But I remain unconvinced. Paulina and Hermione are very close, and Paulina protects Hermione for 16 years.

Queer or Carnivalesque: Analyzing Mercutio’s Sexual Identity in Romeo + Juliet

Allison Chen am, Apr 20, Staff Reporter. Yale College Arts. Even a fencing match crackles with romantic tension. Swords whip the air as Mercutio and Tybalt parry and strike within a strangely intimate dance—even in the first scene, when the two are merely fencing partners. Yes, each choreographed thrust is done with fighting intent.

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Now will he sit under the medlar tree,. And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit. As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone. Romeo, that she were, O, that she were. An open arse, thou a poperin pear! This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep:. Come, shall we go?

Queering Mercutio: Baz Luhrmann’s Textually Inaccurate Take on Romeo’s Best Friend

Even when the characters admit honest confusion regarding their gay tendencies, especially in a conservative Verona, they never disregard the relationship as merely a physical tryst, but rather as an honest, emotionally sensitive connection. Playing off the playboy Mercutio, a stoic Tybalt reads in Latin for his lover, as he explains famous literary tragedies; however, he does so always in reference to their own relationship.