March 18, 2025

The Slings and Arrows of Woke Fortune

Timothy Birdnow

So Shakespeare is great because of white privilege and colonial thinking!

Decolonizing Shakespeare: Experts Blame White Supremacy for Playwright's Fame

"Regarded as the most influential writer in the English language, some of William Shakespeare’s work is now viewed by critics as racist, sexist and homophobic.

As a result, the Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust is decolonizing his hometown museum over the growing concerns about how his ideas are being portrayed today."

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1 Just goes to show: people like Shakespeare could write, people like critics could criticize, and seldom if ever do the twain meet.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at March 18, 2025 09:17 PM (X5D0l)

2 This post showcases your unique ability to inspire and engage readers through your heartfelt writing. Fantastic smm cheap panel

Posted by: SMM Heart at March 19, 2025 03:51 AM (H5CXu)

3 Yawp Dana. As was  said in History of the World Part II there was the inevitable afterbirth of the critic.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at March 19, 2025 07:02 AM (PvlV5)

4 Did you ever have the ineffable joy of reading "The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N" (those aren't typos, they're all caps and stars in the original), by "Leonard Q. Ross" (pen name of Leo Rosten)? I think it was written in the late 1930s and dealt with teaching immigrants the English language in night school. The main character was Hyman Kaplan, who loved to write his name in caps with stars, and had, as you'd guess, a very ebullient personality but didn't look at the world quite the same way his literal-minded teacher, Mr. Parkhill, did.

One opinion he had, that he would not be disabused of, was that Shakespeare was the greatest author of all time, PERIOD. And when one of the other students in the class suggested that a passage they'd just read ("Tomorrow, and tomorrow" from Macbeth) reminded her of Dante, Mr, Kaplan exploded "Mein Gott! Jakesbeer you are comparink to a TANTE?!!!" And so forth. (Actually, Dante occupies as exalted a position in the development of the Italian language as Shakespeare does in English.)

Anyhow, Mr. Kaplan mistakenly thinks the passage is from Julius Caesar ("Jullius Scissor") but defends it brilliantly and totally confounds Mr. Parkhill, who after that incident is never able to hear that speech in its proper context again. And I'm thinking how much I loved that book and am mourning the fact that it's one I had to ditch when we moved.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at March 19, 2025 11:44 PM (X5D0l)

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