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Is Brexit Truly Shakespearean, Or Do We All Just Not Understand Shakespeare?

THEATRE Posted: April 15, 2019 4:45 am

The problem is that “the plays can very easily function as a kind of confirmation bias, where we find exactly what we are looking for. The allure of such topical readings is ultimately narcissistic: Shakespeare is our contemporary, our own world is the most interesting of all, and the plays mirror our own times and our own views. This is an interpretive trap.” – The Guardian (UK)

THEATRE Published: 04.12.19

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 04.12.19

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