The Woke Savanarolas simply need to be told to shove it https://disrupttexts.org/2018/10/25/5-disrupting-shakespeare/ …
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Very interesting book -- particularly on the near universal popularity of Shakespeare in 19th century.https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674390775 …
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Yes, I learned this directly from Larry, who made the point via the hilarious scene in Huck Finn (!!) with the “Arkansaw lunkheads” who “couldn't come up to Shakespeare; what they wanted was low comedy—and maybe something ruther worse than low comedy.” Which is itself low comedy!
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There’s that great duo of characters traveling West in the movie Tombstone where they play bits of S and other stuff in the mining towns.
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In many ways agreed, and Fintan O'Toole excellent "Shakespeare is Hard, But So is Life" in many ways try to recapture that 19th century view for the 20/21st....
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