The world’s wealthiest man attempted comedy the other night but was booed off the stage. Shakespeare would understand.
Tag Archives: William Shakespeare
Musk Needs a Shakespearean Fool
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Confused about Gender? Read 12th Night
“12th Night” shows that gender is far more fluid than the right likes to think. We all need to acknowledge this.
Why Conspiracy Theories Beat Logic
Philosopher Mladen Dolar cites Socrates and Hamlet to explain why conspiracy theories are so resistant to logic.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged 2022 elections, Apology, conspiracy theories, Hamlet, Kari Lake, QAnon, Socrates Comments closed
Humorless Twitter Boss as Malvolio
Elon Musk sparring with his Twitter critics is like Shakespeare’s Malvolio going after Feste.
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Alas, Poor Twitter–I Knew Him, Ho-Ratio
Literary allusions have been flying, many with a sense of doom, since Elon Musk purchased Twitter.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Elon Musk, Hamlet, Henry VI Part 2, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Samuel Beckett, Sense and Sensibility, twitter, Waiting for Godot Comments closed
My Upcoming Ljubljana Lectures
I share the works I will be lecturing on at the University of Ljubljana.
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How Media Would Spin Macbeth
In an effort to be fair to both sides, sometimes the media doesn’t call out falsehoods. Satirist Petri imagines a newspaper telling the story of the Macbeths.
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Russia’s Falstaffian Mobilization
Russia’s current mass mobilization at times resembles Falstaff’s recruitment in Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays.
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