NP but WS, the feminist. Michiko reads Tina P.

[Mark Kohut]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/books/review-women-of-will-by-tina-packer-a-look-at-shakespeares-feminine-side.html?_r=1

The oppositions of Make Love, Not War are deep Shakespearean poles
akin to the poles
that are Mason & Dixon, or, what does Dixon say, Tyrants vs. Slaves--
in History? I'd say.
And the cycle of revenge in history, another TRP theme, is as
pervasive as resentment
in life, I'd say. So deeply, so originally done, "for all time".--Jonson

That Shakespeare may have been bisexual, perhaps half not acted upon, is another
possible way to read the sonnets and to read his incredible creation
of female characters.
He didn't need no dame to create his "feminism'; his empathy did
it--and when it did, he could
recreate it. (I know this is essentially the same point as Tina
Packer's, differently stated).  Mirror neutron(s), neutroning, I'll
coin, as contemporary science says about the young's
ways of empathizing.

Twelfth Night, Portia in Merchant of Venice and the others Michiko
mentions are many of
the plays in which Shakespeare gives them the best lines, makes them
the wittiest, the deepest.

And Germaine Greer on Taming of the Shrew, Kate's not being 'tamed'
until she 'wants' to be,
knowing she has found a man who is finally her equal, is another
wonderful, different reading of
THAT early play.
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