(Townhall)—For some bizarre reason, some on the hard left insist on transing all the things. Now, they are coming for William Shakespeare’s works.
An academic in the United Kingdom claims all of the main characters in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” were gender-fluid. The play is a tragedy about a Scottish nobleman who resorts to skulduggery to seize the kingdom with the help of his wife, Lady Macbeth.
But, apparently, all the major players in the story are transgender or non-binary, according to British lecturer Ruth Fernando, who claims Shakespeare used the titular character and his wife to “disrupt and contrast the conventional ideas of masculinity and femininity, examining them in the form of androgyny.”
In a paper titled “Man, Woman, or Both? Shakespeare’s Treatment of Androgyny and Lady Macbeth’s Disempowerment,” she also suggests the “Weird Sisters,” who issue the prophecy that inspires Macbeth to take power, could be male because they had beards.
She further posits that Lady Macbeth’s penchant for acknowledging masculine traits within herself, especially through her famous “unsex me here” soliloquy, is a form of “verbal androgyny” that destabilizes her identity, disempowering her. “Lady Macbeth’s androgynous nature reduces her role in the play and disables her empowerment,” Fernando writes.
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