The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.1128.  Monday, 10 November 1997.

[1]     From:   Steven Marx <
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        Date:   Sunday, 09 Nov 1997 12:06:15 -0800
        Subj:   Re: SHK 8.1123  Re: Mercutio: Queer, Homosexual, Gay, Bisexual

[2]     From:   Christine Gilmore <
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        Date:   Sunday, 09 Nov 1997 15:23:49 -0600
        Subj:   Re: SHK 8.1123  Re: Mercutio: Queer, Homosexual, Gay, Bisexual

[3]     From:   Tim Richards <
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        Date:   Monday, 10 Nov 1997 21:05:53 +0800
        Subj:   Gay Mercutio


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From:           Steven Marx <
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Date:           Sunday, 09 Nov 1997 12:06:15 -0800
Subject: 8.1123  Re: Mercutio: Queer, Homosexual, Gay, Bisexual
Comment:        Re: SHK 8.1123  Re: Mercutio: Queer, Homosexual, Gay, Bisexual

In _Shakespearean Film/Shakespearean Directors_, Peter Donaldson has an
excellent chapter on issues of gender and sex in Zeffirelli's Romeo and
Juliet.

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From:           Christine Gilmore <
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Date:           Sunday, 09 Nov 1997 15:23:49 -0600
Subject: 8.1123  Re: Mercutio: Queer, Homosexual, Gay, Bisexual
Comment:        Re: SHK 8.1123  Re: Mercutio: Queer, Homosexual, Gay, Bisexual

David P. McKay, thank you for your quotation of material from Sedgewick
but you credit me with observations of the Luhrman's film that I did not
make.  You say you "disagree with Gilmore that in Luhrman's..."  This is
not good argumentation.  I am simply trying to understand what Dietz is
saying; I would not characterize Luhrman's film as doing any of the
things Dietz  suggests.  Please direct your response to what I said.  I
do not agree with Dietz's comments; yet my QUESTION  is whether her
definition and use of this expression, "to queer," is useful and valid.

Thank,
cg.

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From:           Tim Richards <
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Date:           Monday, 10 Nov 1997 21:05:53 +0800
Subject:        Gay Mercutio

David P. McKay wrote:

>One thing that
>has bothered me from the inception of this thread of discussion is the
>idea that Mercutio in Luhrmann's film in "not obviously gay."  To steal
>from Valerie Traub, not obvious to whom?

When I commented on this, it was just through a feeling that gay clich