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#but knowing about Shakespeare's real-life queerness makes me more inclined to read the homoerotic subtext in his work as deliberate
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Horatio and Ophelia are never confirmed as being in a scene together, and do not share so much as a single line of dialogue.
#hamlet
#ophelia
#horatio
#shakespeare
#I think sometimes about the (lack of a) dynamic between these two characters
#They're probably the two people Hamlet is closest to
#He loves them both (yes he *does* love Ophelia even though he is undeniably shitty to her)
#They both love him
#It's not quite textually a love triangle
#but knowing about Shakespeare's real-life queerness makes me more inclined to read the homoerotic subtext in his work as deliberate
#Because we never see them on stage together we never see them directly compete
#But we also never see them connect. Collaborate.
#Commiserate about the maddening madman they love and the hardships they must witness being inflicted upon him.
#Or their own troubles--the dutiful daughter always ordered about. The untitled scholar perhaps looked down upon
#Think of it like this: Both Horatio and Ophelia try‚ in their ways‚ to save Hamlet
#And they both fail
#Could the two of them working together have altered the path of fate?
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