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This chapter demonstrates how reading Moth as a queer schoolboy in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost forces audiences to reflect on the gendered ideal early modern schooling was expected to produce, and then compare it to the masculinity actually performed by the adult male characters in the play. While critics have long studied this comedy’s investment in wit, wordplay, and rhetoric as a satirical attempt to outwit the University Wits, Moth is as routinely left out of those discussions as he is cut from performances. Moth, imbued with this tradition, uses his wit to queer the humanist pedagogical ideal by exposing how it is in language’s queer flexibility that true wit resides. |
