The deadest and whitest of the dead white men tho. What prize could be higher?
Have to agree. Shakespeare's characters can withstand history because their depth is universal. The Merchant of Venice is a sympathetic portrayal of a Jew to an enlightened audience and classic Jew-baiting to an antisemitic one
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Also a white male who experimented a good deal with gender (in Twelfth Night most notably as Snow Day hinted at) as well as race, class etc. He will withstand, and might even flourish in, the current academic fashions
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To your 1st sentence, certainly. Yet I wonder how many of Shaespeare's influential detractors will ever read him so deeply. I'm not wortied about some high-cultural movement against him.
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