Posted on 02/16/2021 6:52:44 AM PST by Labyrinthos
William Shakespeare, thou hast been getting canceled.
An increasing number of woke teachers are refusing to study the Bard — accusing his classic works of promoting “misogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, anti-Semitism, and misogynoir.”
A slew of English literature teachers told the School Library Journal (SLJ) how they were ditching the likes of “Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and “Romeo and Juliet” to instead “make room for modern, diverse, and inclusive voices.”
“Shakespeare was a tool used to ‘civilize’ Black and brown people in England’s empire,” insisted Shakespeare scholar Ayanna Thompson, a professor of English at Arizona State University.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
You’d get more intelligent conversation from a farm animal.
There were some moments in comedies of error but “addressing the issue” as we understand it today would have landed him in the pokey.
Actors then as now were often narcissists with arrested development. Flaming, as best they could without risking a hanging.
Actually, I was watching Julia Ormond in “Legends of the Fall”. AS Keith Jackson would have said, “WHOA NELLIE!”
This one is for that professor-ess:
“Get thee to a nunnery!”
It’s actually a good movie. Brad Pitt has been in a bunch of movies I like. Most recently Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
In my quote, watch should be let.
as we were saying...
SJWs ruin everything.
An “increasing number of teachers” have never heard of the Earl of Southampton, it looks like.
These Black “Uncle Toms” apparently didn’t get the memo:
https://www.theroot.com/black-actors-whove-tackled-the-bard-1790868382.
Shakespeare was a tool used to ‘civilize’ Black and brown people in England’s empire.
No racism there huh ?.
So were public schools.
Churlish farts!
“Get thee to a nunnery!”
I read somewhere that “nunnery” did not mean a convent, as it appears on its face, but a brothel.
Obviously Shakespeare got the idea from “Two Mules for Sister Sarah”.
Yes! This is absolutely true. The service that you are providing to your children and their future is priceless. Thank you for making the necessary sacrifices to educate and to raise your children properly.
From the article: “Other teachers said they were sticking with Shakespeare, but reframing his works through a more modern lens.”
This “modern lens” rubbish, and subjective reasoning have destroyed our educational system. It is just as bad, if not worse than, cancelling Shakespeare altogether.
The notion that texts should be studied within the context they were produced is dying. I was taught “text and context” and that is what I teach. And, frankly, I have happily found that there are still a number of students who appreciate, crave and gravitate toward this approach.
Contemporary values have no bearing on historical texts. They must be understood and interpreted, as much as is possible, with the author’s original intent in mind (a system of textual analysis that correlates with constitutional originalism in its purest sense).
That our young people in these godforsaken public school systems are being denied objective readings of Shakespeare, or access to the sublimity of his prose and poetry, is a crime against Western Civilization. But I suppose that is the point.
Professor of Belittlement
Get truly superb credentials from academic boards wanting Woke Doctoral awardees, then use the credentials to destroy your target subject.
Academics are vile.
There was a NY Times article recently about a Classics Scholar who decided that focusing on Greco-Roman culture was “enabling whiteness” so he is working to abolish the field.
In all of English literature there is no more beautiful language than Shakespearean prose and poetry. It’s the language of the King James Bible. I’d rather cut off my foot than jettison that.
"Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?"
Excellent — Thanks for the post.
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