stonebutchgender:digoxin-purpurea:foxnewsfuckfest:brainstatic:brainstatic:brainstatic:The play was J
stonebutchgender:digoxin-purpurea:foxnewsfuckfest:brainstatic:brainstatic:brainstatic:The play was Julius Caesar. By Shakespeare.Delta believes firmly in the annexarion of Gaul and stands with the Julii. Fine, so perhaps this adaption might have chosen some modern iconography. But it’s still a play about how stable governments fall apart very easily. Also it’s Trump so who gives a shit. Oh cool, we’re normalizing censorship now. Great.IT IS JULIUS FUCKING CAESAR. IT HAS BEEN ADAPTED FOR USE AS POLITICAL COMMENTARY EVERY GODDAMN TIME IT’S BEEN GODDAMN ADAPTED. THIS IS NOT NEW.Considering Fox News didn’t say SHIT about people LITERALLY hanging and burning Obama in effigy they need to shut the fuck up about this. Also, it’s a fucking play adapted happens all the fucking time. Grow the hell up.#but it’s a good idea!! that’s how political shakespeare works #you allude to real life and find the parallels #and people get offended and think Exactly. The point IS to offend, to make people seriously think. This shouldn’t even be considered offensive, it takes the recognizable political situation of the United States and looks at it through Shakespeare (and vise versa). This play has so many themes that are always relevant, and it draws up serious questions about all the characters and their motives/rightness. This is brilliant and it’s too bad I can’t see this. This play has ALWAYS been connected to the politics of the day, from the first staging by Shakespeare himself, and perhaps most famously a fascist European setting in Welles’ version right before WWII. You can set it in any political system- national, local, communist, fascist, whatever, anywhere people have power. This is definitely a good idea, Fox and Delta are full of shish, and this production needs (pardon my tumblr cliche) to be spread like wildfire and made well-known. -- source link
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