Re: [OT] Diversity cult coming for Shakespeare

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:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuNgnoBSXAA [18 minutes]
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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.
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