Shakespeare Woke Class 101

[Baitball Blogger]

If you haven't already, check this DU post on the right-wing gaff of the day:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217569522

A right-winger tried to use Shakespeare as the ultimate example of Anglo correctness and she got schooled by an academic. I highly recommend clicking on the Twitter source in the link to see how it evolved as he was waiting for take out.

His comments just need one major emphasis: Shakespeare plays, back in Shakespeare's time, could be argued to be one of the first drag shows, since all the roles were played by boys and men.

This, however, is the main reason for posting this in another thread: This right-winger is a perfect example of the kind of student the anti-woke movement will churn out with their white-washed curriculum. It's a level of ignorance that will shame us all. Can you imagine a need for class corrections at the college level like, Shakespeare Woke 101.

[Ocelot II]

1. Before and during the Elizabethan era, all stage roles, not just those in Shakespeare's plays,

were played by men, at least in England, because it was considered unseemly for women to act on stage. Later in the 17th century women began to be accepted as actresses. But in some of his plays it's clear that Shakespeare was playing games with gender roles. The discussion in the cited thread cites The Twelfth Night, where "a male actor dresses up as Viola, a young woman who dresses up as a young man who falls in love with another man and who is loved by another woman (who is played by a man)."