Shakespeare in Pop Culture. Shakespeare is heralded as a foundational figure in Psychology, sociology, political theory, business, medicine, and law. He’s one of the largest enablers of modern culture For his 37 plays: 10 Tragedies 10 Histories 17 Comedies. 884,647 words and 118,406 lines. Roughly 1/100 words we speak today was. Shakespeare in our culture is already disseminated, scattered, appropriated, part of the cultural language, high and low. An advertisement for rugged outdoors types advertised a sale: 'Now Is the.
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IN POPULAR CULTURE
In addition to the intentional reliances upon Shakespeare, we have incorporated the Elizabethan ideological repertoire, often unconsciously, into our culture.
MERCHANDISE
Vlockit. There are tons. See, for example, here.
INSULT KITS
You can't swing a dead cat withoutbonking into a 'construct-your-own-Shakespearean-insult'device: a web page, refrigerator magnets, toy contraptions, circulatinge-mail, etc. A plague on't!
Here's one online:
The Shakespeare Insult Server
The Shakespeare Insult Server
One suspects that this phenomenonis linked with the 'Bits & Pieces' sound-bite would-bewisdom flooding our print landscape: little nuggets extractedfrom any context whatsoever (including Shakespeare too again)and posturing as deep insight. Anymore around here, it's likePolonius exploded.
Anyway, the insult kit is naturallymore dynamic because it gives people a more dignified vocabularyfor their colossal road-rage on the donkey-path of life. Otherwisewe'd all just be 'big, dumb, butt-heads.' Now we're'pribbling, hedge-born clotpoles.'
Shakespeare And Modern Culture
STAR TREK
'Shakespeare is good in English, but you need to read him in the original Klingon..'
And you can, thanks to the Klingon Shakespeare Restoration Project.
And you can, thanks to the Klingon Shakespeare Restoration Project.
Shakespeare's Influence On Culture
Former English 305 student Sean Hall plunged into the intricate relationships between Shakespeare and Star Trek, and he reports here.
THE LION KING
The opening sequence of The LionKing is a useful if odd popular cultural artifact for showingsomewhat Shakespearean themes and the political context. The filmmakes no sense in terms of animal behavior and reflects a politicalsystem Americans are not supposed to believe in. So where is thiscoming from? Politically, the court structure has nothing to dowith lions, nor do the messianic aspects. The monkey who anointsthe cub functions like an Archbishop of Canterbury at a royalcourt. We get instead iconic (God-) Sun-King implications.
Hamlet In Pop Culture
The 'circle of life' blurssomehow with the Great Chain of Being: the supposedly naturalhierarchy (cp. Julius Caesar I.1.115f). Lions eatbaboons. In fact, all the animals cheering their new lord areon his menu.
Shakespeare Pop Culture
From then on, for reflections ofthe Body Politic, see Henry IV.2, Hamlet (I.iii.17f,I.ii.135, I.iv.89), Richard II, and Richard III.Scar is Richard III. The regicide/fratricide comes from Hamlet.
Hamlet In Pop Culture Today
The plot centers on Primogeniture.Birthright carries princely responsibility and you can't get outof it. Your worth is innate vs. earned; you may attempt to optout as do Prince Hal and this lion; but the Hakuna Matata daysare soon over. One difference is that Falstaff is not broughtinto the kingdom in the end as Pumbaa and Timon are. Disney isone weird mamma-jamma.