We wanted to do our show right here in the barn but the farmer said 'Hamlet' might offend his pigs. Ham? Pig? Curtain.
2007-02-20 09:06:16 · 10 answers · asked by Spotlight 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
Well, "racist" did not have the same ultra-mediated meaning as it has now, it was kind of natural, and it was more xenophobia than racism.
Remember Montesquieu's "Comment peut-on être Persan?" (how can one be a Persian?).
2007-02-21 00:50:10 · answer #1 · answered by jacquesh2001 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. For a great take on this, read the play "M. Butterfly" by David Henry Hwang.
A lot of works of art have racist ideas in them (not sure what the hell you're talking about with the pigs, though) but they should be taken as products of their time and place. Then we can look at them in a new, more enlightened way.
2007-02-20 10:55:01 · answer #2 · answered by kaligirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi Alberich! it really is a captivating question, for positive - a "Depressant Opera" - what a idea! nicely, the opera that continually makes me sense gray and gloomy for a lengthy time period afterwards is Purcell's hauntingly perfect "Dido and Aeneas." proper from the starting up, the spectre of doomed love infects the music...even the Overture is gray and depressing! notwithstanding the element that continually bothers me the most is the actual shown truth that perfect Dido finally ends up topping herself interior the call of love - stabbing herself interior the middle! What a grisly thanks to pass. And as well, what guy (or female) is worth death for??? fortunately there is a few ordinary relief interior one among those the unabashedly camp Sailor's Dance, and the cacklingly humorous "Hahahahaha" Witches chorus...in the different case, i imagine i'd pick to depart the opera residing house and end all of it, too... My first journey of "Dido and Aeneas" became in college, at the same time as i became 14, and our music classification staged a performance. I remember feeling truly depressed for days afterwards...yet per chance it became because I had a touch a hero-worship element for the pleasing instructor (who performed the function of the doomed Dido, and staged a really impressive suicide.) wager I had a touch a difficulty keeping apart fantasy from truth decrease back in lately... Hafwen x
2016-12-04 10:36:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not as racist as The Merchant of Venice. They were all not politically correct those days. Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley, Henry the eight, QE 1, I can go on for ever................
2007-02-20 09:15:52 · answer #4 · answered by Tamart 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im not answering your question but you actually need to READ someones question B4 ANSWERING IT!! lol i mean, i said ' i dont like using make-up because it gets cakey' and your all like havent you ever heard of make-up darling? UMM READ!!
2007-02-20 12:35:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is this a preview to greatness?
2007-02-20 09:13:20 · answer #6 · answered by Butt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ya think!
2007-02-20 09:10:02 · answer #7 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No!
2007-02-20 09:11:45 · answer #8 · answered by producer_vortex 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what??
2007-02-20 09:09:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-02-20 09:09:03 · answer #10 · answered by Faith 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋