{"id":398326,"date":"2021-05-19T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=398326"},"modified":"2021-05-20T15:19:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:19:42","slug":"rush-had-the-number-of-the-woke-shakespeare-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/05\/19\/rush-had-the-number-of-the-woke-shakespeare-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Had the Number of the Woke Shakespeare Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRETT: Woke Shakespeare. That\u2019s right. You didn\u2019t misunderstand me. Woke Shakespeare. “Shakespeare\u2019s Globe Theatre,” the Globe Theatre there over in England is “‘Decolonising the Plays of Shakespeare.'” Wait a minute. “‘Decolonizing the plays of Shakespeare'”? Well…<\/p>\n

“Shakespeare\u2019s Globe, which works primarily out of a reconstruction of the iconic Globe Theatre built by William Shakespeare\u2019s own playing company in the 1500s, suggested that the webinars, supported by Cambridge University Press, were an answer to its own rhetorical question: ‘What does it mean to read Shakespeare through an anti-racist lens?\u2019<\/p>\n

\"\"“The theatre, which declared that it is ‘anti-racist and believes Black Lives Matter\u2019 in June last year, will put on the first webinar ‘to discuss issues of race and social justice in A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u2019 on May 20th, hosted by Farah Karim-Cooper. Karim-Cooper, a professor of Shakespeare Studies at King\u2019s College London who ‘curated the Globe\u2019s first Shakespeare and Race Festival\u2019…”<\/p>\n

Ummm. He has “strong views on a variety of issues, expressing relief when Sadiq Khan was re-elected as Mayor of London and tweeting about ‘the inanity of Brexit\u2019 and ‘the monstrosity of Trump\u2019, ‘white privilege\u2019, ‘white male mediocrity\u2019, and the ‘heavy hand of white supremacy\u2019 in academia, among other things.”<\/p>\n

Okaaaay. So they\u2019re gonna put this on as an anti-racist play. It\u2019s really an amazing thing. The woke culture wade its way all the way to that Globe Theatre right there on Stratford-upon-Avon. Can cancel culture kill Shakespeare? Back in 2017, Rush talked about the left hijacking Shakespeare for their own purposes, in that case having a Trump look-alike as Julius Caesar.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Shakespeare in the Park.<\/p>\n

This is a big deal for the theater world. You might think this is off-off-off-off Broadway. No, no, this is not off-off-off-off-off Broadway. This is a big deal and corporations love being seen. It\u2019s connected to this. You have to have lived in New York and understand the New York theater and arts and croissant crowd, coupled with the corporate culture.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s how they all tell themselves and demonstrate to everyone else that they are cultured and sophisticated and supportive of the performing arts, some of the finest and most valuable elements of high society. The actors work in there for not very much and they do variations on Shakespeare plays.<\/p>\n

What they\u2019re doing now is Julius Caesar who, of course, as you know is assassinated by Et tu, Brute, as he\u2019s walking into the Senate. Well, guess who\u2019s playing Caesar in this adaptation? An orange-headed Julius Caesar made to look like Donald Trump gets stabbed to death and killed and the audiences cheer, and it is clear it is President Trump being assassinated.<\/p>\n

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