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To paraphrase an 80s anti-drug ad, “this is Shakespeare, this is woke Shakespeare.” Any questions?
(If you enjoyed this episode of woke Shakespeare, be sure to tune in to your local PBS station for more.)
The obvious question is “why bother”, but the obvious answer is that wokes (unlike old school lefties who could be creative) are cultural parasites, incapable of creating anything new, and thrive only on tainting the old.
It’s why the entertainment industry churns out bastardized versions of its intellectual properties, yet makes nothing new that endures.
Wokes are incapable of grasping the content of anything, only the surface context. And thus they obsessively remake things in line with their deconstructionist sensibilities. Shakespeare to them is no different than Star Wars, Dickens, 1776 or Marvel comics, it’s all the same, replace the cast with a completely inappropriate identity politics assemblage and revamp its message so that it deconstructs whatever it ever was.
Wokes think that they’re ushering in a revolution when all they’re doing is demonstrating their incomprehension of the original material. But that is why they’re wokes. Wokes can be offended by anything, but they don’t understand anything. Philosophically, they’re all surface impressions, reading their tired Marxist tropes into any classical work and then plugging in a “diverse” cast to hammer home the revolutionary message.
But there are no more revolutions. The only woke cultural revolution still going on is narcissism. Wokes don’t want to change the world, they want to revel only in their outrage and false sense of superiority by destroying anything that predated them, anything they don’t understand, and turn it into a virus broadcasting their virtue.
Ruining Shakespeare.
Admit it, though. The ugly skank in the wheelchair is hilarious. Even funnier than the black guy with the eighties haircut in tights, who I bet wasn’t playing Othello. Maybe he was supposed to be Hamlet, ha ha!
These people are deranged.
I couldn’t stand to watch it for more than 10 or 20 seconds.
even funnier… that black guy is a woman
Oh yeah, I can see that now. I didn’t take a close look before because I was laughing too hard.
Oh, my! Those two screeching voices were unbearable. Made me think of an interview I heard with actor Werner Klemperer (who played Col. Klink on “Hogan’s Heroes”). He was asked, when interviewed for the series if, he minded playing a nazi. He replied that if he could play Richard III, he could play a nazi. I wonder what he would have thought if he heard these two.
I suspect that that “guy” was a gal. Not 100% sure though.
I think that “guy” was a gal.
With zero written history of a culture of advancement and making life better for regular folks blacks like muslims have to steal and lie about their history. They both appropriate what they take as their own.
AND LET US THE FIRST THINGS WE DO WE SHALL KILL ALLTHE LAWYERS
Classic line. Why Shakespeare is so great.
From the period of the great flowering of English culture.
Remember the take on Richard lll in the movie The Good-by Girl?
Personally I thought that both of the actresses did a good, workmanlike job. It’s not my favorite play; Richard II is probably his most beautiful and poetic one, and the rest of the Second Series History Plays are great drama and propaganda.
aa Mid Summers Night Dream LORD WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE this would point towards Liberals as the fools