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Subject: Re: [OT] Diversity cult coming for Shakespeare
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:29:58 -0400
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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:
>>>
>>> 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.
> ...

But afaics those don't purport to "correct flaws" in the original.