grumpy Shakespeare-authorship journalism rant

Apr 19, 2024 15:46

AARGHH GUARDIAN STOP BEING STUPID!!!

Admittedly, The Guardian is often stupid about Shakespeare, but it's usually in ways that are at least entertaining, like suggesting, on the basis of a wildly out-of-context reading of Sonnet 76, that he preferred pot to the fancy designer drugs of his day. (N.B., "weed" in this poem does not actually mean ... ( Read more... )

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frank April 19 2024, 21:01:05 UTC
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