Re: The Demonization of Shakespeare

In article <l5vh5klmrjfb2osjm0hfcd6urb4gat6pf4@4ax.com>,
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
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On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 06:34:37 +0100, Hibou
<vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
 

The Demonization of Shakespeare [...]

 
I suspect you've seen the following recent news item but, if not, here's a
link.
 
<https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/16/william-shakespeare-
birthplace-trust-white-supremacy-empire/> [...] :

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"The project also recommended that the trust present Shakespeare not as
the 'greatest', but as 'part of a community of equal and different
writers and artists from around the world'."
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I think that's twisting the facts to suit what people want to believe.
Now, whom can we turn to for a quotation?
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I would have no problem if people grouped Shakespeare with people like
Dumas, Zola, Camus, Rousseau, Dosteyevsky, Tolstoy etc. but you know
as well as I do that "part of a community of equal and different
writers and artists from around the world" DOESN'T in 2025 mean "more
dead white males" - or even ANY white males.
 

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Dumas is a "dead white male"? (dead, yes, male, yes).