Oh Natalie. Always a Queen, but it's never easy.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect
It does seem like this is mostly Henry and the rest being assholes, though, rather than something racialized?
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"Race" as we know it was still in the process of being invented back then but there absolutely was prejudice against darker complexioned people in favor of fairer complexion being a sign of virtue, which you can see in Shakespeare's plays etc.
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Race in Shakespeare is complicated, though. His portrayals of racialized figures are meant to be read *sympathetically* compared to other work from the time, which doesn’t mean it’s not problematic. Just that it’s not purely “racist” in an historical lens.
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Yeah even Othello is a bad person, he's tragically trapped in what Shakespeare thinks of as his inescapable biological condition, his Moorish hot blood
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Replying to @arthur_affect @OrionKidder and
And Aaron the Moor, by contrast, is not just a villain but this *ultimate* villain Like Don John in Much Ado, he gives a whole eloquent monologue about how even though he seemingly has every reason to be happy and content he's gonna blow it up because it's his nature to do so
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Right, and in Don John's case his villainy is also "in the blood" in the sense that he's a bastard
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Most modern stagings will try to make this nurture, not nature Othello, Aaron and Don John are all vindictive and resentful all the time because they grew up in a world where for all their privilege they were always "other" and didn't belong
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Replying to @arthur_affect @OrionKidder and
But Shakespeare clearly didn't really see it this way Or at least he didn't draw the distinction between nature and nurture, it was all one
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