Re: [OT] Diversity cult coming for Shakespeare

On Mar 21, 2025 at 11:12:32 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
wrote:

BTR1701  <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

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 "Twelftth 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.

 
I love Forbidden Planet.

My favorite is WEST SIDE STORY. Who knew the guy could write music as well as
could write prose?!