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Thursday, November 24, 2022
Four of Shakespeare’s Plays and How They Speak to the Current Political Situation in Britain
The Theatre Times: The last few years in politics have gifted the keen observer many allusions to some of Shakespeare’s best-loved works. From the Midsummer Night’s (fever) Dream the electorate might think they are experiencing while looking on at parliament to All’s Well That Ends Well (or is it?).
1 comment:
TJ
said...
Watching the UK's politics from afar is like watching a kinda funny but also a little bit disturbing reality show. Now that I've read this article, I too cannot stop thinking about it as a hilariously bad mash-up of Shakespeare's plays. It is honestly really disturbing that the political state of the UK is this messed up and that the problems that were being satirized and written into plays back in Shakespeare's time are now even more real. It is even more disturbing if you look beyond the UK. What is said in this article about the UK's government could also be said about many other countries and the world's politics in general. We are at a very unstable point in politics around the world and that can be a very scary thought. While we should continue to work to fix the problems that we are dealing with, it can be nice to just forget about them sometimes and pretend it's just a bad shakespearean mash-up.
1 comment:
Watching the UK's politics from afar is like watching a kinda funny but also a little bit disturbing reality show. Now that I've read this article, I too cannot stop thinking about it as a hilariously bad mash-up of Shakespeare's plays. It is honestly really disturbing that the political state of the UK is this messed up and that the problems that were being satirized and written into plays back in Shakespeare's time are now even more real. It is even more disturbing if you look beyond the UK. What is said in this article about the UK's government could also be said about many other countries and the world's politics in general. We are at a very unstable point in politics around the world and that can be a very scary thought. While we should continue to work to fix the problems that we are dealing with, it can be nice to just forget about them sometimes and pretend it's just a bad shakespearean mash-up.
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