1 April 2011

larryhammer: topless woman lying prone with a poem by Sappho painted on her back, label: "Greek poetry is sexy" (poetry)
Is it wrong of me to read Comus ll.418-21:
I mean that too, but yet a hidden strength,
Which, if Heaven gave it, may be termed her own:
'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity:
She that has that is clad in cómplete steel
as Milton describing an actual steel chastity belt?

I mean, I know it's wrong to want to replace all the masque's instances of "chastity" with "sexiness" (alas, "erotic skills" does not fit the meter) and rewrite the last third to have the Lady escape Comus's clutches of her own agency using same, with as much smexing up as the staging can handle. Tempting, especially given lines like "the sun-clad power of chastity nakedness" (782) -- but still Wrong like a Ron/Bellatrix WAFF fic.

But the belt -- is that wrong?

---L.

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