Re: [OT] Diversity cult coming for Shakespeare

On 3/21/2025 7:49 PM, Your Name wrote:

On 2025-03-21 15:29:58 +0000, moviePig said:

On 3/20/2025 11:58 PM, Your Name 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:
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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?

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Among many others, there has already been:
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 - in America, a production of "King Lear" on Broadway with Glenda
   Jackson in the lead role.
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 - 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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But afaics those don't purport to "correct flaws" in the original.

 They sort-of do ... the "Politically Correct" whiners' so-called 'flaw' of not having female leads / characters or the so-called 'flaw' of not having many shows performed in the Maori language.
 As usual, the "Politically Correct" whiners' 'solution' is to simply hijack and butcher existing material to suit themselves, rather than having any actual creative talent to make new things theselves.

I'd guess that a female Lear is presented in the *context* of the original, not *instead* of it ...and that audiences attend largely out of curiosity about such an enterprise.  Surely there's no proposal to permanently neuter Shakespeare's play.