I know what you’re thinking: Shakespeare, Ugh! Is it one of those who are eating for you-your-your-spinach, the best stories that I should see, but don’t really want to see?
Okay, not afraid! The host of Ira Glass, manufacturer and popular public radio program “This American life” has felt your pain since high school. “It was difficult to study in school,” Glass said. “It seemed, Oh, these smart people like. I thought there should be there Some? Here.”
And then, in 2014, Glass participated Production of “King Lear” at Central Park, New YorkJohn Lithgo starring.
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After the drama, Glass tweeted: “Shakespeare: No good. No bets, not reliable. I think I am realizing: Shakespeare is useless.”
@Johnlithgow As tonight: amazing. Shakespeare: Not good. No bets, not reliable. I think I feel: Shakespeare is useless.
– Ira Glass (@Iraglass) 28 July 2014
“I thought it was clear that it was a joke, but people did not take it as a joke,” he said.
And the backlash was immediate: “Ira Glass Shakespeare is a Palestine to say useless”New Republic“Internet is telling about Ira Glass that Shakespeare is useless”Atlantic“Ira Glass hates Shakespeare” (Chicago Tribune,
Glass said, “But I think there is a problem with Shakespeare. I think, if you dare to say anything bad about it, then you think, Oh, I should be dumb. ,
Revenge and murder and betrayal
“If Shakespeare saw a lot of his performances, He He would say that he sucked, “Farah Karim-Kupar said.” I don’t think Shakespeare was able to put a four -hour ‘haemlet’ on his stage at any time, in his time. ,
And he is from someone who has dedicated his career to Shakespeare. Karim-KOper, director of Folger Shakespeare Library at Washingo, DC, says “Romeo and Juliet”, Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” directly talks to him: “I think as a Pakistani-American teenager, I could not believe that Shakespeare really understood my family. No, I am marrying this man. And she married my father who was a sea captain. So I was like this, How does he know about Pakistani families?,
Shakespeare, who was born in 1564, also knew about teenage girls growing up in Washington, DC, “When I was 13 years old, my elder brother took me to see his first Shakespeare, and I immediately decided that Hemlet was my lover, not realizing that he could be the worst lover in the world!” A Pulitzer Award winning columnist Marine Dowde for The New York Times. “Then, I started studying Shakespeare at school and fell in love with my work completely.”
Two years ago, Dowd went back to school and received a master’s degree in English literature from Columbia University, where he focused on Shakespeare. “I deal with primary colors what I like about Shakespeare,” he said. “He is about revenge and murder and betrayal – it really actually program my Netflix algorithm. Therefore, for me, he is very modern.”
“God, what are these mortal fools!”
Opened in 1932, Folger Shakespeare Library was a gift to the nation from Henry Folger and his wife, Emily. Recently renovated at a cost of $ 80 million, the world’s largest collection known as First Folio – Shakespeare’s plays of 36 firstly printed compilation of 36. Folio said, Librarian Greg Prikman said, “An infection from Shakespeare on the page on the page.”
Today, Folio has been sold for $ 10 million. Without him, his plays are very well lost.
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Dowd says that it is a fitting that Folger is located in the capital of the country: “Outside the garden, ‘Midsmus Nights Dream’, and Line, ‘Lord, What Fulls in Mortals Ho,’ is a silver statue of puck, and it faces capital.
In fact, Dowd says, Shakespeare was a cultural father for early US leaders. “The founder father was very immersed in Shakespeare,” he said. “Thomas Jefferson advised people to read Shakespeare, from which it was dark that he had been a mole by the time he went to bed.”
John Adams read Shakespeare to better understand the dark side of power, and how to save against it. “The founding father definitely used it to create a republic,” he said.
Dow cited himself in his new collection, “infamous”, as in his column since 1995, when Bill Clinton was the President. “Clinton is just a classic Shakespeare character because he was just a sad defect of negligence,” said Dowd.
He compared Vice President Dick Cheeni to Eyago, George W. Bush’s Othello … Barack Obama for Hamlet, for his hesitation and indecency … and as for the biden? “If the biden had read the ‘King Lear’, he would have realized the dangers of Gerontocracy, and you should not really stay in power and the young people who are coming together.”
And then the current commander-in-chief is: “Donald Trump reminds me of many different plays. He is like a late layer, halls on the moon. He is also like a Julius Caesar in a republic, but is trying to grab the crown and think of himself as an emperor,” said that said.
“You a villain art”
Actor Patrick Page was also introduced by his father, an actor in Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s first copy of his first copy, when he was nine years old, was given to him, Page’s father wrote the following inscription: “For Patrick – can you find a lot of happiness in these words. Love, father.”
“All the devils are here”
Since 2017, Page has been performing his one-man show, “All the Devils is invented by Hau Shakespeare invented the villain.” As he states, “Their tragedy is not that they are evil; their tragedy is that, hands in hand, they choose evil.”
Asked why Shakespeare’s villains are so permanent, the page replied, “I think we are all interested in darkness in ourselves. Shakespeare gives these villains true motivations, true inner life, true back stories.”
In his show, the page examines the villain of the characters who still talk to us. For example, “The Dark Knight” stars Heath Laser’s clown and “The Dark Night” in the Joker and “The Dark Night” and the wicked witch of the west, Shakespeare’s distorted at the same time Richard III, while Walter White is like Macbeth, in “Breaking Bad”.
It is terrible as these characters, Dow says that when it comes to Shakespeare, there is nothing to fear. “Shakespeare always has more layers,” he said. “I mean, it is a continuous source of amazement, because Shakespeare was the best entertainer ever, I would say.”
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For more information:
- “All the Devils is here: How Shakespeare invented The Villain” Patrick Page (Patrickpageoinline.com)
- Folger Shakespeare LibraryWashington DC
- Ira glass on Instagram
- “This American life”
- Morin Dowd, The New York Times
- “Notorious: pictures of Hollywood, culture, fashion and technology stars” Available through Maureen Dowd (Harper Collins), in hardcover, eBook and audio formats, Heroic, Barns and noble And Bookshop.org
- Open source shakespeare
- Shakespeare birthplace trust
- williamshaakespeare.net
- Shakespeare’s GlobeLondon
Story created by J Knis. Editor: Lauren Barnellow.
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From the archives: Shakespeare’s Globe Theater (YouTube video) reconstructive
American actor Sam Warmekar fought for years to recreate Shakespeare’s globe theater, which was burnt in 1613. He did not live to see a new globe growth on the south coast of the Tems. In the report of “Sunday Morning” on August 3, 1997, Corepondent Tom Fenton spoke with actress Zo Wanmaker about her father’s passion, with master builder Peter McCredi; Mark Relance, Globe actor-manager; And American actors Christian Camargo and Steven Skybell are about bringing Shakespeare’s immortal works to “The Wooden O”.
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