By far the best part of this biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins is the information that Victorian Jesuits were very anti boys playing women's roles on stage, so at two different schools we see "Fergus, Macbeth's younger brother" instead of Lady Macbeth.
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This was all tied to the homophobic anxieties in the wake of the Oxford movement, right?
6:45 AM - 6 Dec 2019
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