Queer Shakespeare; Focus on Henry IV (Part I & II)

Abstract

Shakespeare has undoubtedly shown his mastery in the depiction of the characters in his world celebrated dramas. Despite, being among the bests, Shakespeare has not been able to disregard homosexuality and its presentation in the characters’ activities. The objective of this paper is to find out how queer Shakespeare and his characters have been in Henry IV plays. Moreover, the queer approach of Shakespeare as a writer and person is the aim to be found out in this paper. For this investigation, a queer analysis of the texts along with critics’ view, historical review, theories like feminism, psychoanalysis and queer are to be applied here to find out Shakespeare’s attitude towards sexuality for the better understanding of the works of Shakespeare in general.