Queer Classics: “Were the World Mine”
The 2008 musical film reworks Shakespeare to explore gender, sexuality, and performance.
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5 min readFeb 3, 2021
There was a time, not that long ago, when cinematic interpretations and reworkings of Shakespeare were all the rage. There were the pseudo-biopics such as Shakespeare in Love and there were the modern rom-com retellings, such as Ten Things I Hate About…
