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"This accompanies Shakespeare's preference for new ideas and contradicting traditional literary forms": as I tried to explain in session 9 of the lecture course: this was definitely not the case.

"Scholars tend to ascribe the poet's admiration towards a man as a hint to Shakespeare's supposed homosexuality": source needed. Moreover, this thesis is not tenable for several reasons: 1. "homosexuality" as we know it today did not exist in the 16th century. It is an invention of the 19th century (see Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality). 2. It just does not do to confuse the speaker of a poem with the author. What next? Reading tea leaves?