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thetardisisnotourdivision · 2 years

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So hhow would you like us to perform Shakespeare, sir? Mouthing it? Sign language? Interpretive dance? Oh, you mean you're a pretentious gatekeeping snob who thinks Shakespeare was some aristocratic literary genius. The man was the son of a glove maker and the actors would have been working class, some of them will have been foreigners (I know, shocking, right?), and you're saying they wouldn't have had strong accents - because that's what you mean, isn't it? Give me a break. Go do your research, you idiot, and then you can write stupid articles about Shakespeare.

#snowflakes #we shouldn't let them foreigners steal our acting jobs in Shakespeare's plays #This has me unnecessarily irritated #but still #I mean what do I expect from The Torygraph really #I bet the guy who wrote this is the kind of guy who laughs at gen z and millenials for being #God seriously it's just badly masked racism #it's fucking Brexit all over again #I mean he makes not one logical point in that whole article #Not one #No Shakespeare would not have cared if Ukrainians were in his plays in fact he'd have welcomed them #Bc he probably had a shortage of actors due to the plague

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