![]() ![]() He begins the poem by describing his mistress’ physical features. In Troilus and Cressida, set during the Trojan War, Aeneas gets “fair leave“ to bring a “fair message” to the Greeks, while the fate of the Trojans depends on the “fair worth“ of Hector.In this poem, Shakespeare compares his mistress’ features with several beautiful things in nature. “So foul and fair a day I have not seen,” pronounces Macbeth. “Fair” often refers to a woman and her beauty, but it had a rich variety of meanings. True to form, the authors of “White People” are particularly interested in the word “fair,” which they count more than 900 times in Shakespeare. Of course, the fecundity of Shakespeare has given us words (from “accommodation” to “obscene”) and phrases (including “It’s Greek to me,” “budge an inch,” “more sinned against than sinning” and on and on) so commonplace that no one would know their origin. There couldn’t be anything less in accord with the spirit and fact of Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s racial interpreters are trying to take an author of incredible complexity, whose brilliance involves creating rich, multi-layered characters and raising moral questions, rather than providing ready answers to them, and reduce him down to one thing. The book states that “Shakespeare’s global, representational power almost in tandem with a global white cultural supremacy.” SWNS If these people have anything to say about it, Shakespeare’s reputation will undergo another turn, from being considered less fashionable than other playwrights in his own time, to being rarely performed after his death, to being rediscovered and ascending to the status of a giant in the 19th century, to becoming toxic in the 21st century for allegedly setting the predicate for the white supremacy that blights the West to this day.Īnd here poor old Will probably just thought he was writing some plays and sonnets. The Royal Shakespeare Company plans to keep the bard “relevant” by exposing how racially problematic he is. Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre holds an annual event on Shakespeare and race. The new book, written about favorably in The Atlantic, is hardly an outlier.Ī couple of years ago, “The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race” was published (“the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in all of Shakespeare’s plays,” the promotional material explained). SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty ImagesĪlthough “it’s quite likely very few if any of those assembled at the Capitol on that day thought of Shakespeare” - perhaps the most unassailable statement in the volume - it was still “ white people’s Shakespearean theater on a grand scale.” President Donald Trump raided Congress on Jan. According to a new book, Williams Shakespeare engaged in “white-people-making.” Hulton Archive/Getty Images Supporters of former U.S. It’s pretty much a direct line from the Globe Theatre in the 16th century to the US Capitol on Jan. The contributors to the book aren’t surprised by the “fact of Shakespeare’s global, representational power existing almost in tandem with a global white cultural supremacy.” Indeed, it only renders “more unremarkable or invisible a unique alliance of white people and Shakespeare.” QED. If you’ve wondered if there’s anything that race-obsessed activists, bureaucrats and academics can’t ruin, the answer is “No,” as they begin get to work in earnest trying to tear down a towering genius who has had an immense - and profoundly edifying - effect on our culture.Īccording to a new volume, “White People in Shakespeare,” the immortal playwright was engaged in “white-people-making.” Yes, instead of standing in the line of literary giants such as Dante, Chaucer and Goethe, Shakespeare is to be associated from now on with the likes of the 19th-century French apostle of scientific racism Arthur de Gobineau, George Wallace and - why not? - the Oath Keepers. Now, there’s another, worse charge against the bard - he created the concept of whiteness. Shakespeare has long been dismissed, with others in the Western canon, as a dead white male. Woke rewrites of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,' Bond, other classics: foolish AND sinister Right out of Dickens: Child migrants in punishing jobs across nation Trump is obsessively attacking DeSantis as if Ron's the front-runner DA Bragg to cross the Rubicon and divide the nation by indicting Trump ![]()
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