{"id":111888,"date":"2017-06-19T09:06:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T13:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=111888"},"modified":"2017-06-19T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T15:15:11","slug":"leave-willy-alone-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/19\/leave-willy-alone-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave Willy Alone, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_111889\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/shakespeare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111889\" class=\"wp-image-111889\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/shakespeare.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/shakespeare.jpg 1724w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/shakespeare-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/shakespeare-768x617.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/shakespeare-1024x823.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-111889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why you gotta be so mean?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As a thought experiment, Virginia Woolf once imagined the life of Judith Shakespeare, William\u2019s hypothetical sister\u2014just as artistically gifted, but constrained, as a woman, by every form of harassment and prejudice. A creative person in Judith\u2019s position, Woolf thought, would\u2019ve suffered \u2018nervous stress and dilemma which might well have killed her.\u2019 Rachel Bowlby argues that times have changed: Woolf\u2019s reputation has grown by such leaps and bounds since her death that she is, now, essentially Judith Shakespeare, sitting beside the bard in the pantheon of English letters. Bowlby writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/virginia-woolf-queen-of-arts\/?CMP=Sprkr-_-Editorial-_-TheTLS-_-ArtsandCulture-_-JustTextandlink-_-Statement-_-Unspecified-_-TWITTER\" target=\"_blank\">Woolf acquired a prime position, becoming something like a queen in the widening world of women and literature<\/a>. There had been a more doubtful period when her writings were sometimes disparaged or downgraded, and her Bloomsbury associations might detract from her status as a thinker. But by the time she came out of copyright for the first time in 1992, she was all set for the long canonical haul: ripe for instant endowment with the footnotes of scholarly and studently editions. She could be called on at any time and in most contexts for a challenging, memorable quotation\u2014not just about women or literature, but about any topic of current or universal interest, from war to love to money to colonialism to class. Alongside Shakespeare, Woolf is a literary celebrity, to be found in every corner of cultural consciousness and public or private space: from mugs to T-shirts to films and plays \u2026 No other non-male writer has received anything like this degree of recognition and attention. It is not clear whether this is more of a consummation or an irony, but without a doubt Woolf has herself become Shakespeare\u2019s sister.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>But it\u2019s actually a shitty time to be Shakespeare, let alone Shakespeare\u2019s sister, I\u2019m sad to say. In the wake of the Trumped-up <em>Julius Caesar<\/em> debacle, protestors have attempted to interrupt Shakespeare in the Park\u2019s production\u2014and other, even more ignorant people have revealed an antipathy for Shakespeare that runs deeper than I\u2019d ever thought possible. Many of them don\u2019t seem to know who the playwright is at all; others may believe he\u2019s still alive; all of them have a disdain for his entire canon. Whatever the case, as Malcolm Gay writes, Shakespeare troupes around the nation\u2014all of whom have nothing to do whatsoever with the disputed <em>Caesar <\/em>production\u2014are getting loads of hate mail from Trump supporters. Like: \u201cHope you all who did this play about Trump are the first do [sic] die when <small>ISIS<\/small> COMES TO YOU\u00a0[expletive] sumbags [sic].\u201d Another writer wished the thespians \u201cthe worst possible life you could have and hope you all get sick and die.\u201d\u00a0Gay reports, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/lifestyle\/style\/2017\/06\/16\/knives-are-out-for-theaters-that-bear-name-shakespeare\/BjIuTepxxULJHZvTAQmF6H\/story.html?event=event25?event=event25\" target=\"_blank\">At Shakespeare Dallas, executive and artistic director Raphael Parry says his company has received about eighty messages, including threats of rape, death, and wishes that the theater\u2019s staff is \u2018sent to <small>ISIS<\/small> to be killed with real knives\u2019<\/a> \u2026 \u2018You have to understand, we work primarily with a 400-year-old playwright: There\u2019s been a lot of water over the dam,\u2019 said Shakespeare &amp; Company artistic director Allyn Burrows. \u2018I don\u2019t know that it\u2019s ever been this acute\u2019 \u2026\u00a0\u2018What might be gurgling up for them is their ire around having to do Shakespeare in high school,\u2019 he quipped. \u2018They\u2019re like, you know what? I never realized I hated my English teacher as much as I did.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t get upset. It\u2019s always been this way. Theater and violence go together like tomato and mozzarella. Will Self, for instance, recalls a visit to the theater in the eighties wherein he encountered a former acquaintance whose name he\u2019d appropriated for a seedy character in one of his novels: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/2017\/06\/i-was-theatre-it-was-no-act-when-pimp-threatened-beat-me-pulp\" target=\"_blank\">A red-faced, heavy-set figure surged up from a seat and confronted me<\/a> \u2026 \u2018You don\u2019t care what you do to people in your books!\u2019 he expostulated. When, dumbstruck, I failed to respond, he added: \u2018You don\u2019t even know who I am, do you?\u2019 I conceded I didn\u2019t, whereupon he spat his name\u2014an unusual one\u2014back in my face. Then I did recall him: I\u2019d known X in the mid-1980s when I was hanging around with a fairly louche crowd. X was only a distal member of this group and he wasn\u2019t louche at all\u2014just a hallucinogen-addled young man, rather wistful and lost and, unlike his latter incarnation, slim, ethereal and pale. Which was why, when I ran into him fifteen years later, I was shocked by his transformation. X had become something of a gangster and, as he defiantly admitted to me, a pimp \u2026 But I\u2019d done nothing libelous: after all, he really was a pimp and a drug dealer. With this realization, I at once calmed down. So, X was going to beat the shit out of me\u2014so what? The main point was that I\u2019d simply done the most important thing a writer of fictions can do: tell the truth.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Maybe the way out of this cycle of ignorance and violence is to concede that the theater has a consciousness\u2014that every board in the stage, every klieg lamp and microphone, every plush seat in the house has a <em>consciousness<\/em>, and that this consciousness extends from an ecological unity that extends even to the most \u201cunnatural\u201d environments. The philosopher Timothy Morton has based his career on \u201cthe feeling of ecological awareness,\u201d and his ideas are gaining currency in a world desperate for meaning. As Alex Blasdel explains in a new profile, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jun\/15\/timothy-morton-anthropocene-philosopher\" target=\"_blank\">Morton\u2019s own work is about the implications of this strange awareness\u2014the knowledge of our interdependence with other beings\u2014which he believes undermines long-held assumptions about the separation between humanity and nature<\/a>. For him, this is the defining characteristic of our times, and it is compelling us to change our \u2018core ideas of what it means to exist, what Earth is, what society is\u2019 \u2026 Morton\u2019s peculiar conceptual vocabulary\u2014\u2018dark ecology,\u2019 \u2018the strange stranger,\u2019 \u2018the mesh\u2019\u2014has been picked up by writers in a cornucopia of fields, from literature and epistemology to legal theory and religion \u2026 His most frequently cited book, <em>Ecology Without Nature<\/em>, says we need to scrap the whole concept of \u2018nature.\u2019 He argues that a distinctive feature of our world is the presence of ginormous things he calls \u2018hyperobjects\u2019\u2014such as global warming or the internet\u2014that we tend to think of as abstract ideas because we can\u2019t get our heads around them, but that are nevertheless as real as hammers. He believes all beings are interdependent, and speculates that everything in the universe has a kind of\u00a0consciousness, from algae and boulders to knives and forks.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Reductio ad absurdum: if everything in the universe has a consciousness, then so do Fortune 500 CEOs. And this seems unlikely, I confess. But here, too, there\u2019s reason to have hope: Nelson D. Schwartz reports that the age of \u201cthe baronial CEO\u201d\u2014that well-heeled figure floating through the whisper-quiet halls of power with the air of a god\u2014is finally drawing to a close. Schwartz writes, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/17\/business\/ge-whole-foods-ceo.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=second-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news\" target=\"_blank\">A select group of American chief executives were once more akin to statesmen than businessmen<\/a> \u2026 For most of the Fortune 500, the unquestioned power and perks, the imperviousness to criticism from the likes of shareholders, and the outsize public profile that once automatically came with the corner office have gone the way of the typewriter and the Dictaphone \u2026 \u2018These people were bigger than life, and I saw it up close,\u2019 said Kevin Sharer, a former chief executive of Amgen \u2026 \u2018They were a combination of chief executive, statesman and rock star. They were unassailable\u2019 \u2026 The only place that evoked a feeling of power comparable to the long hallways and corner offices of Fairfield in its prime was aboard the fast attack nuclear submarines where he once served as chief engineer \u2026 At Exxon Mobil, it\u2019s referred to as the God Pod. On the eleventh floor of Procter &amp; Gamble\u2019s headquarters in Cincinnati, there was Mahogany Row. And while the official name of the executive wing at G.E.\u2019s Fairfield headquarters was E3, inside the company it was known as Carpet Land \u2026 What these executive aeries all shared was an Olympus-like sense of remoteness, authority and defined hierarchy.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: Shakespeare troupes face hate even though they have nothing to do with Caesar; Virginia Woolf\u2019s rising star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[29232,2046,6461,2045,29231,18962,2679,29229,22326,19268,29228,7403,29230,21037,969,2627,2295],"class_list":["post-111888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-american-businessmen","tag-business","tag-celebrity","tag-ceos","tag-dark-ecology","tag-ecology","tag-english-literature","tag-hate","tag-hate-mail","tag-ignorance","tag-judith-shakespeare","tag-philosophy","tag-the-theatre","tag-timothy-morton","tag-virginia-woolf","tag-will-self","tag-william-shakespeare"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shakespeare: Dead for 401 Years and Still Getting Hate Mail<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s arts and culture news: Shakespeare troupes face hate even though they have nothing to do with Caesar; 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