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No scenes in Shakespeare's plays are as intimately homoerotic as the scenes in Cymbeline in which the two brothers fall in love with the main character, who would have been a male actor playing the part of a girl disguised as a boy. It is while the brothers think the person is a boy that they fall in love with... him. Cymbeline also contains one of the best songs in all of Shakespeare. It begins: Fear no more the heat o' the sun, / Nor the furious winter's rages; / Thou thy worldly task hast done, / Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages; / Golden lads and girls all must, / As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. ..........Watersgreen House is an independent international book publisher with editorial staff in the UK and USA. One of our aims at Watersgreen House is to showcase same-sex affection in works by important gay and bisexual authors in ways which were not possible at the time the books were originally published. We also publish nonfiction, including textbooks, as well as contemporary fiction that is literary, unusual, and provocative. watersgreen.wix.com/watersgreenhouse

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William Shakespeare had a wife, ten years older than he himself (he was eighteen) and pregnant at the time of their marriage. He also, apparently, had a mistress in London. But the much-quoted love sonnets written by Shakespeare were written to a boy who was fifteen when Shakespeare began writing about him and eighteen when the sonnets end. In Shakespeare's plays, too, same-sex attraction shows up more frequently than the general public knows. Cymbeline is one of the best examples.

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