Fox News upset Shakespeare in the Park isnt a safe space for Trump supporters

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

“A disgusting New York City play depicting the president brutally assassinated,” begins a Fox News segment apparently seeking to stoke the outrage out its conservative audience. Even Donald Trump’s son appears upset.

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The play? The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, which William Shakespeare is believed to have written around 1599.

Julius Caesar, which many people read in high school, focuses on the agony of Brutus, a close friend of Caesar’s who ultimately conspires in Caesar’s murder. This particular version appears to be a somewhat anachronistic interpretation of the play, where the characters are dressed in modern clothes.

According to Fox’s write-up of its own segment, the actor playing Caesar “looks very similar to the tall, blond businessman elected president in 2016.” Also, the actress playing his wife has a “Slavic accent.”

It’s an edgy interpretation of Shakespeare’s 400 year-old play, but hardly an extraordinary one. Modern updates of Shakespearean dramas, where centuries-old characters are placed in a contemporary setting, are fairly common — as anyone who enjoyed popular film in the 1990s can probably tell you.

Also, the play doesn’t exactly portray Caesar’s assassins as untainted heroes — or Caesar’s death as a positive event.

https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-upset-shakespeare-in-the-park-isnt-a-safe-space-for-trump-supporters-9bedb8973f2b

As one who had to read Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" in my sophomore year in high school the article is correct.

[luvMIdog]

1. OH YEAH- well JUNIOR How much 'religion' Jerry Falwell and others are peddling that isn't taxed?

And when does religion become nothing but political speech ? MMMNN?

WHO THE FUCK does Junior think he is? ! Screw you Junior!

[Grassy Knoll]

2. Funded By Taxpayers, He Asks?

HO LEE FOK..... Golf Courses, Mara Logo, New Jersey.

Fuckin Repubies, My God!!!

[LisaM]

3. God, this booboisie.

Can you even imagine a Trump picking up and reading a Shakespeare play by choice? No, I can't either.

[ProudLib72]

4. If it ain't Othello

the right won't like it.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. I don't know. I trust Frank Drebin's word on it.

[smirkymonkey]

7. I loved that movie!

Great scene!

[Foamfollower]

6. I'll never fly Delta again.

[Nevernose]

8. Damn coastal elites!

Think they're better than us! He we are, trying to look out from our billion dollar golden tower and help those like us -- simple, working people of the land -- and we are repaid by snooty Shakespeare threatening to kill my dad. Shame.