[Borges]

Think about all the ‘Freudian’, ‘Marxist’ and ‘Feminist’ readings applied to Shakespeare throughout the 20th century. Heck English Romantics like Blake and Shelley interpreted Paradise Lost in ways that would have made Milton cross eyed.

[Ed Hudgins]

That’s post-moderninsm for you. There is no objective reality. Things mean whatever the viewer wants them to mean. Of course, this is a cynical way to diss Western values and to push the left’s agenda. And when you point out that the post-modernists contradict themselves, that if everything is an subjective interpretation, then so are their theories and thoughts, they respond the way Marx did when people asked him “How can you, a bourgeois, understand the working class since you say that the bourgeois mind, formed by capitalist institutions, is biologically incapable of understanding the working class mind?” Both post-modernists and the Marxists from which they came, say “See, you bourgeois minds cannot understand this dialectic logic.” In other words, they’re full of it!

[3AngelaD]

The BBC did a Shakespeare ReTold series that I saw last year, and the Taming of the Shrew episode was absolutely classic. And hilarious. I watched it twice it was so good. Usually I dislike Shakespeare in modern dress, but this one was so well done I had to lower my guard and enjoy it.