The Woke Savanarolas simply need to be told to shove it https://disrupttexts.org/2018/10/25/5-disrupting-shakespeare/ …
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Replying to @SWGoldman @nils_gilman
My point in a different thread. *That’s* the book the experts never mention but is the one everyone read. Lamenting that the last “common” book is some one that only they’ve heard of misses the point completely and exposes them as the ones who don’t know what’s essential
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Thanks to Lawrence Levine's scholarship, I see the real downfall as occurring in the late 19th century, when Shakespeare migrated from being a popular dramatist with a near universal audience to a classroom artifact used to uphold WASP supremacy.
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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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The Coen brothers have a (typically) dark view of this in Buster Scruggs, where an actor who does Shakespeare, Biblical and Lincoln set pieces is replaced (SPOILER ALERT) by a chicken who can count
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