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OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE! EVEN FUCKING SHAKESPEARE IS TOO "WOKE" FOR THEM!

God damn, I shouldn't let them piss me off so much, but this is craziness.

Shakespeare is never taught properly in school anyways. I always hated it. They teach plays by making you read and analyze. That's like taking a film course and reading the scripts but never watching the movies.

Once you watch Shakespeare as intended, on a stage but nothing fancy, by actors who don't take themselves too seriously, it clicks. But reading the plays as a teenager is just dumb.

Ron DeSantis, I bite my thumb at thee.

In a way, it’s fascinating to see the fall of the Roman Empire, 21st century edition.

Here's an excerpt from They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45, an analysis of the causes and destructive path of Fascism before and during WWII. A high school teacher who joined the party to cover for his anti-Nazi past is talking about which Shakespeare plays he could teach:

"Tell me, Herr Hildebrandt, what about Julius Caesar?"

He smiled very, very wryly. "Julius Caesar? No... no."

"Was it forbidden?"

"Not that I remember. But that is not the way it was. Everything was not regulated specifically, ever. It was not like that at all. Choices were left to the teacher's discretion, within the 'German spirit.' That was all that was necessary; the teacher had only to be discreet. If he himself wondered at all whether anyone would object to a given book, he would be wise not to use it.

This was a much more powerful form of intimidation, you see, than any fixed list of acceptable or unacceptable writings. The way it was done was, from the point of view of the regime, remarkably clever and effective. The teacher had to make the choices and risk the consequences; this made him all the more cautious."

Gotta love teaching for a test, rather than to educate.

Am I the only who doesn't give an eff about Shakespeare? Sure I love the history of it all, but there's too much good shit to read that doesn't involve an annoying archaic English and will never use it again unless you do plays in the park.

“Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry.

Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out.

Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies.

Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail.

Katherine: In his tongue.

Petruchio: Whose tongue?

Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell.

Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.”

Lol isn't returning to Shakespeare half the point of Florida's new SAT replacement test that is created by hard-core Catholics? The "classical tradition" is the shit, so I was led to believe.