This is a strange move to make the play more potentially offensive to the protected members of their own audience. I also thought they were trying to de-emphasize the old playwrights (at least in schools) because they're White, so putting on a Shakespeare production adds a bit to the confusion.
Well, what can you do if the demand for racism greatly outstrips the supply.
Also the protected members of their audience will love it. They'll feel all tingly when they can claim that they are victimized (by shakespeare, of course, not by the actual racists that produced that shit)
Having flashbacks to Junior High, "Shylock is the hero because Shakespear was a Jew hating Nazi!" "Um I think Shylock is a gangster hated by Jews and Gentiles alike in the story. Did you read it Ma'am?" "Anti-Semite!"
What bigotry? Leave Shakespeare alone please. So sick of theses modern day talentless hacks who can’t create anything of their own so they crap on the greats that came before them. Thankfully iI went to high school when they still required us to read Shakespeare
stopped reading
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This is a strange move to make the play more potentially offensive to the protected members of their own audience. I also thought they were trying to de-emphasize the old playwrights (at least in schools) because they're White, so putting on a Shakespeare production adds a bit to the confusion.
Well, what can you do if the demand for racism greatly outstrips the supply.
Also the protected members of their audience will love it. They'll feel all tingly when they can claim that they are victimized (by shakespeare, of course, not by the actual racists that produced that shit)
"Like, what light on yonder simulator breaks. Tis the east, and Juliet's fat ass is blocking the sun."
Having flashbacks to Junior High, "Shylock is the hero because Shakespear was a Jew hating Nazi!" "Um I think Shylock is a gangster hated by Jews and Gentiles alike in the story. Did you read it Ma'am?" "Anti-Semite!"
How about we don't rewrite Shakespeare?
What bigotry? Leave Shakespeare alone please. So sick of theses modern day talentless hacks who can’t create anything of their own so they crap on the greats that came before them. Thankfully iI went to high school when they still required us to read Shakespeare