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THE NNT™ NEWS: Volume II, Edition 2.
Shakespeare's Draft Play Exposes Oppressed Homosexuality.
Stratford upon Avon was today the scene of a remarkable discovery. During excavations at what is thought to be the site of a Shakespearean theatre from the 1500s, Archaeologists found a wad of papers. On further inspection, it turned out to be a draft copy of a previously unknown Shakespeare play, Romeo and John.
It follows a similar plot to his better known Romeo and Juliet, except that the two main characters have to deal with telling their warring parents that they are both gay. They die in each others' arms, only minutes from being killed by their parents. Attached to this was what appears to be an unsigned warrant for execution, in the script of Elizabeth I herself.
Campaigners for Great Oppresed Homosexuals, who believe that great men such as Shakespeare, van Gogh and Iain Duncan Smith were gay, but forced into heterosexuality to avoid political reprocussions, rejoiced at the outcome. But their opposition claim that this is not proof that Shakespeare was gay, only possibly bisexual.
The debate rages on.
Chris Waine, Stratford-upon-Avon.