'He queered the hell out of it': the man behind Shakespeare's same-sex love sonnets
Shakespeare was inspired by the homoerotic poetry of Richard Barnfield " so why has it taken so long to acknowledge the connection between them? The year 1594 was a fruity one in English literature, in part thanks to the influence from beyond the grave of Christopher Marlowe. Two of the dramatist's most queerly themed plays made it into print that year: Edward II, about the medieval king's passionate desire for his f…