wilsonfisk2@yahoo.com writes:
<< If you (and I mean 'you' generic rather than specific) wrote an essay arguing Bklake and Avon were lovers you'd failt the course becasue you wouldn't be able to provide suifficent textual evidence.
Actually, IIRC, several critics have published interpretations of "King Lear" that postulate Cordelia and the Fool are the same character, based largely on the fact that the two never appear in the same scene...
I'll admit when I first heard of slash, years ago, my reaction was shock and disbelief. Then, after sampling some stories, I found it added another dimension to the characters (or my reading of same) and, when I returned to viewing the episodes, allowed me to see them in a new light. (Oddly enough, a by-product of this has been that I'm now better able to appreciate feminist criticism and re-visionings of older works, because I can see how my take on slash has affected the way I interpret actions in the episodes and apply the same understanding to feminist rereadings and texts.)
DDJ