Speechless

"THE Oregon Shakespeare Festival has decided that Shakespeare’s language is too difficult for today’s audiences to understand. It recently announced that over the next three years, it will commission 36 playwrights to translate all of Shakespeare’s plays into modern English."

So writes James Shapiro in the NYT.

Excuse me.

{sound of retreating footsteps, closing of doors; silence; HOWL of RAGE, enwoven with anathemata}

{clip of returning footsteps; glass continues to fall}

Thank you.

May triple Hecate and her hounds devour them, hands first, and all their hard drives fuse irreparably.

What in hell is wrong with these people?  They just let the Oxfordians hold a conference on their premises, and now they're cutting out Will's tongue.   Have they hired Richard Smith-Jones away from the smoking ruins of the New Burbage?

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