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NANCY LINDHEIM . Rethinking Sexuality and Class in Twelfth Night Our critical understanding of Twelfth Night has shifted radically in the past two or three decades. I don't know whether audiences who watched the play continued to feel actively good,' as Stephen Booth reported in 1985,1. but critics came to think it a disturbing and cynical affair. Antonio and Malvolio, as it were, took over centre stage, underlining subtexts of unfulfilled homosexual longing and unappeasable Class conflict. Though informed by historical research, the readings often turned out (as David Scott Kastan says) more significant as records of our present anxieties than as reconstructions of those of Shakespeare's time.'2 Recent shifts of focus in historical and gender-based studies, however, are loosening up the ten- dency towards automatic foreclosure on such issues.
rethinking sexuality and class in TWELFTH NIGHT 681 6 See the pattern argued for by McCary. 7 New York Times, Sunday 19 October 2003: arts section, 5 (though the actors are young men, not adolescents). Shakespeare’s having already used twins – two sets! – in Comedy of Errors must mean that the premise did not exceed the audience’s …
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