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Juliet by Anna Kirwan7/6/2023 Thus, adaptations of Shakespeare's text are necessarily involved in queering the queer(ed): a pomosexual process that ultimately leads to the breakdown of the normative signification system." 'Romeo and Juliet' is a historical text that has been adapted, and thus queered, numerous times Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' is itself an adaptation and therefore is always already a queer text. Adaptation, as a process of re-writing/disrupting a normative, 'originary,' historically situated text, is by definition a queer process. I argue that queering involves the non-normative and disruptive process(es) of reading texts. By engaging in new queer or pomosexual readings of Shakespeare's text, in relation to various adaptations, including 'Shakespeare in Love, Tromeo and Juliet ', and 'Get Real', this thesis challenges the traditional heteronormative reading of the play and argues that the play itself is queer. "This work investigates Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', one of the exemplary heteronormative love stories in Western culture.
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