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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Diversity cult coming for Shakespeare
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:32:54 -0400
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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:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
> 
> 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.