A not-so-minor detail was left out of a recent New York Times review of Robert Wilson’s reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM): The sonnets were the gayest thing the Bard ever wrote.
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Shakespeare Not Quite the Fount of Language He Was Previously Held to Be
As old texts are gradually digitized, the number of words whose lineage was previously traceable only to Shakespeare’s pen has sharply decreased.