Re: [OT] Diversity cult coming for Shakespeare

On Mar 20, 2025 at 8:58:40 PM PDT, "Your Name" <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2025-03-20 18:45:03 +0000, moviePig said:

On 3/20/2025 12:10 PM, Rhino wrote:

William Shakespeare is apparently so "problematic" that activists are working hard to "de-colonize" him. Leo Kearse explains:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuNgnoBSXAA [18 minutes]
 As Kearse points out, it is *extremely* ironic that the people in the Shakespeare Trust, who are supposed to be fans of his work, are the ones trying to "de-colonize" him. With "friends" like that, who needs enemies?

 Among many others, there has already been:
 - in America, a production of "King Lear" on Broadway with Glenda
Jackson in the lead role.
 - in New Zealand, productions of "Taming of the Shrew" with an
"all-female-identiying" cast and a "feminist version" of
"Henry V". (For the sake of 'equality', there has also been an
all-male production of "Twelfth Night", although that of course
is how plays used to be performed.) There have also been various
Shakespeare plays done fully in the Maori language.
 

Shakespeare was a playwright and poet.  His actual verbiage is what we admire,

 *We* don't admire anything of the boring garbage writings by
Shakespeare. *We* were forced to read the useless nonsense in high
school.   :-)

 Speak for yourself. I quite enjoy Shakespeare's works.