"Maybe that is because he was bisexual because the majority of those sonnets do seem to be addressed to a beautiful young man." "There's no doubt that Shakespeare was very very discrete about his own feelings and his own ideas."Įvery feeling expressed belongs to a character, not to Shakespeare himself, Bate says.Įven when he wrote seemingly more autobiographically in his sonnets, he doesn't let on who he is talking about, he says. There are of course areas where the pair differ. "There's no doubt she has a very literary sensibility" - Eminent Shakespeare scholar Sir Jonathan Bate "That's what Shakespeare did for his generation and it seems to me that is what Taylor swift is doing for a whole generation of young people." "In other words, what a great poet does is they put into words feelings that we've all had but that we've not quite been able to articulate," Bate says. The poet John Keats - also a big Shakespeare fan but who lived in the wrong century to test his loyalty to Swift - says poetry is "a wording of our highest thoughts, almost a remembrance". has been about how Shakespeare stays alive by being reinvented on all sorts of different cultural media." "They sort of became lifelong Swifties so I kind of followed along."īate argues Swift is more than just a best selling pop star - she has a literary sensibility worthy of some of history's great writers. so I bought the CD - those were the days of CDs - and gave it to my daughter who was nine I think and she gave it to all her friends," Bate told RNZ Afternoons. this country and western artist Taylor Swift.
"I went up to the counter and said to the girl behind it, oh that's a great song, who's it by, and she said. The lyrics of Taylor Swift's Love Story, about a girl on a balcony and a boy who comes to rescue him, had captured his attention. In a bookstore, 25 minutes south of where the Beatles were born Bate had an unexpected encounter with a modern interpretation of Romeo and Juliet. There's even a Buzzfeed quiz comparing her lyrics with lines from Shakespeare's poems.Įminent Shakespeare scholar and former Oxford professor Sir Jonathan Bate, who is quite the Swiftie himself, got them all right. What do Taylor Swift and William Shakespeare have in common? More than you might think, it turns out.
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