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Othello
Always marvelous. This time through, I'm seeing Iago as a prototype politics of ressentiment right populist figure. He resents an educated foreigner promoted over him by another foreigner who happens to be dark-complected and married to a local woman. It's the normal nihilistic recipe of Trump-voter concerns, with fears of other religions, miscegenation, purported elitism in expertise, and so on.
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Always marvelous. This time through, I'm seeing Iago as a prototype politics of ressentiment right populist figure. He resents an educated foreigner promoted over him by another foreigner who happens to be dark-complected and married to a local woman. It's the normal nihilistic recipe of Trump-voter concerns, with fears of other religions, miscegenation, purported elitism in expertise, and so on.
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Measure for Measure
Perhaps my favorite play of his, this one takes on anti-theatrical puritan writings and eviscerates them. We see it in the spectacle created out of sacrament in the duke's disguise but also in the stage-managed creation of Angelo's lust by means of a theater of chastity during an official court appeal. The defense of theater s a general institution couldn't be stronger.
— Feb 28, 2026 07:21AM
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Perhaps my favorite play of his, this one takes on anti-theatrical puritan writings and eviscerates them. We see it in the spectacle created out of sacrament in the duke's disguise but also in the stage-managed creation of Angelo's lust by means of a theater of chastity during an official court appeal. The defense of theater s a general institution couldn't be stronger.
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Sir Thomas More
A collaboration, this play presents More's handling of the insurrection of 1517 (xenophobic riots) via cosmopolitan reasoning, then moves to his refusal to sign the king's articles, as a matter of conscience. It strikes a balance between the limits of popular sovereignty and royal prerogative. It's a mess, and wasn't licensed in its time for fear of inciting more nativist riots.
— Feb 27, 2026 07:44AM
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A collaboration, this play presents More's handling of the insurrection of 1517 (xenophobic riots) via cosmopolitan reasoning, then moves to his refusal to sign the king's articles, as a matter of conscience. It strikes a balance between the limits of popular sovereignty and royal prerogative. It's a mess, and wasn't licensed in its time for fear of inciting more nativist riots.
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Sonnets, 'The Lover's Complaint,' &c.
No. 126 marks the end of the sonnets addressed to the idealized youth, and then we get grotesque realism regarding the 'dark lady.' 126 itself is incomplete, a disruption of the form that matches the content, say. It's tempting to read the paired 'Lover's Complaint' back into the sonnets as a sort of key, insofar as it is nuanced and the sonnets are laden with grievance.
— Feb 25, 2026 10:11AM
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No. 126 marks the end of the sonnets addressed to the idealized youth, and then we get grotesque realism regarding the 'dark lady.' 126 itself is incomplete, a disruption of the form that matches the content, say. It's tempting to read the paired 'Lover's Complaint' back into the sonnets as a sort of key, insofar as it is nuanced and the sonnets are laden with grievance.
