{"id":31083,"date":"2025-06-08T13:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T13:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/o-for-a-muse-of-fire-the-modern-appeal-of-shakespeare\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T13:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T13:35:20","slug":"o-for-a-muse-of-fire-the-modern-appeal-of-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/o-for-a-muse-of-fire-the-modern-appeal-of-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;O for a muse of fire&#8221;: The modern appeal of Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>I know what you&#8217;re thinking: <em>Shakespeare, ugh!<\/em> <em>Is this one of those take-your-medicine, eat-your-spinach, good-for-you stories I should watch but really don&#8217;t WANT to watch?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, fear not! Ira Glass, creator and host of the popular public radio program &#8220;This American Life,&#8221; has felt your pain since high school. &#8220;It was hard to read in school,&#8221; Glass said. &#8220;It seemed like, <em>Oh, that&#8217;s what smart people like. <\/em>I felt, there must be <em>something <\/em>here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then, in 2014, Glass attended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rlp0e8lKySU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a production of &#8220;King Lear&#8221; in New York&#8217;s Central Park<\/a>, starring John Lithgow. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/07\/576c3dd1-d4ae-475f-a78d-2d9edf8526ea\/thumbnail\/620x349\/f94d86f47987fbf5a2498bc99df7eaf3\/john-lithgow-as-king-lear-public-theatre.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6#\" alt=\"john-lithgow-as-king-lear-public-theatre.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/07\/576c3dd1-d4ae-475f-a78d-2d9edf8526ea\/thumbnail\/620x349\/f94d86f47987fbf5a2498bc99df7eaf3\/john-lithgow-as-king-lear-public-theatre.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/07\/576c3dd1-d4ae-475f-a78d-2d9edf8526ea\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/8fa53cde80a846e767e8b31559a91a5f\/john-lithgow-as-king-lear-public-theatre.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">John Lithgow as King Lear in a 2014   Shakespeare in the Park production of the tragedy, in New York&#8217;s Central Park.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Public Theater<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After the play, Glass tweeted out: &#8220;Shakespeare: not good. No stakes, not relatable. I think I&#8217;m realizing: Shakespeare sucks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-twitter-tweet embed--float-none embed--size-medium lazyload\" data-require=\"third-party\/twitter-widgets\">\n<div class=\"embed__content-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnLithgow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@JohnLithgow<\/a> as Lear tonight: amazing. Shakespeare: not good. No stakes, not relatable. I think I&#8217;m realizing: Shakespeare sucks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ira Glass (@iraglass) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iraglass\/status\/493609943879397376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">July 28, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I thought it was obvious that it was a joke, but people did not take it as a joke,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>And the backlash was immediate: &#8220;Ira Glass is a philistine for saying Shakespeare sucks&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/118900\/ira-glass-says-shakespeare-sucks-hes-wrong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The New Republic<\/a>); &#8220;The internet is freaking out about Ira Glass saying Shakespeare sucks&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/archive\/2014\/07\/the-internet-is-freaking-out-about-ira-glass-saying-shakespeare-sucks\/375187\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Atlantic<\/a>); &#8220;Ira Glass hates Shakespeare&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2014\/07\/29\/ira-glass-hates-shakespeare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago Tribune<\/a>). \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Glass said, &#8220;But I think that&#8217;s the problem with Shakespeare. I think, like, if you dare to say anything bad about it, you feel like, <em>Oh, I must be dumb.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Revenge and murder and treachery<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;If Shakespeare saw a lot of his productions, <em>he<\/em> would say he sucked,&#8221; said Farah Karim-Cooper. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think Shakespeare would ever have been able, in his own time, to put a four-hour &#8216;Hamlet&#8217; on his stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s from someone who has devoted her career to Shakespeare. Karim-Cooper, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washingto, D.C., says Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8220;Romeo and Juliet&#8221; spoke directly to her: &#8220;I think as a Pakistani-American teenager, I couldn&#8217;t believe that Shakespeare actually understood my family. Because my grandmother had an arranged marriage, and then my mother was told she has to marry someone that they choose. And she&#8217;s like, <em>No, I&#8217;m marrying this man.<\/em> And she married my dad who was a sea captain. So I was like, <em>How does he know about Pakistani families?<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>It seems that Shakespeare, born in 1564, also knew about teenage girls growing up in Washington, D.C. &#8220;When I was 13, my older brother took me to see my first Shakespeare, and I immediately decided Hamlet was my boyfriend, not realizing he may be the worst boyfriend in the world!&#8221; said Maureen Dowd, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times. &#8220;Then, I began studying Shakespeare in school and completely fell in love with his work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, Dowd went back to school and received her master&#8217;s degree in English Literature from Columbia University, where she focused on Shakespeare. &#8220;What I love about Shakespeare is he deals in primary colors,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He is about revenge and murder and treachery \u2013 that&#8217;s actually exactly how I program my Netflix algorithm. So, to me, he&#8217;s very modern.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;Lord, what fools these mortals be!&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Opened in 1932, the Folger Shakespeare Library was a gift to the nation from businessman Henry Folger and his wife, Emily. Recently renovated at a cost of $80 million, the library holds the world&#8217;s largest collection of what are known as first folios \u2013 the earliest printed compilations of 36 of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays. The folios, said librarian Greg Prickman, mark &#8220;a transition from Shakespeare on the stage to Shakespeare on the page.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today, the folios have been sold for as much as $10 million. Without them, his plays may very well have been lost. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/07\/d6f34101-2295-4257-bef1-fe0771ff0812\/thumbnail\/620x349\/d0dd690f2af22bd407bc92381c22ec87\/shakespeare-first-folios-at-the-folger-shakespeare-library.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6#\" alt=\"shakespeare-first-folios-at-the-folger-shakespeare-library.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/07\/d6f34101-2295-4257-bef1-fe0771ff0812\/thumbnail\/620x349\/d0dd690f2af22bd407bc92381c22ec87\/shakespeare-first-folios-at-the-folger-shakespeare-library.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/07\/d6f34101-2295-4257-bef1-fe0771ff0812\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/be55c0e599e25236f7b1a16db448a5ca\/shakespeare-first-folios-at-the-folger-shakespeare-library.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Some of the first folios in the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dowd says it&#8217;s fitting that the Folger is located in the nation&#8217;s capital: &#8220;Outside in the garden, there&#8217;s a silvery statue of Puck from &#8216;Midsummers Night&#8217;s Dream,&#8217; and the line, &#8216;Lord, what fools these mortals be,&#8217; and it faces the Capitol. And there&#8217;s never been a more apt description of politics in Washington than that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Dowd says, Shakespeare was a cultural father figure to America&#8217;s earliest leaders. &#8220;The Founding Fathers were very steeped in Shakespeare,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Thomas Jefferson advised people to read Shakespeare from the time it got dark &#8217;til the time they went to bed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John Adams read Shakespeare to better understand the dark side of power, and how to protect against it. &#8220;The Founding Fathers definitely used it to form the Republic,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>Dowd herself cites the Bard in her new collection, &#8220;Notorious,&#8221; just as she has in her column ever since 1995, when Bill Clinton was president. &#8220;Clinton just is such a classic Shakespeare character because he just had this tragic flaw of recklessness,&#8221; Dowd said. <\/p>\n<p>She compared Vice President Dick Cheney to Iago, preying on the insecurities of George W. Bush&#8217;s Othello \u2026 Barack Obama to Hamlet, for his hesitancy and indecisiveness \u2026 and as for Joe Biden? &#8220;If Joe Biden had read &#8216;King Lear,&#8217; he would&#8217;ve realized the dangers of the gerontocracy, and you really should not cling to power and suffocate the younger people who are coming along,&#8221; Dowd said. <\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the current commander-in-chief: &#8220;Donald Trump reminds me of several different plays. He&#8217;s kind of like late Lear, howling at the moon. He&#8217;s also like Julius Caesar in a republic, but trying to grab the crown and think of himself as an emperor,&#8221; Dowd said. <\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;Thou art a villain&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Actor Patrick Page was introduced to Shakespeare by his father, also an actor. In his first copy of Shakespeare, given to him when he was nine years old, Page&#8217;s father wrote the following inscription: &#8220;To Patrick \u2013 May you find much joy in these words. Love, Dad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/07\/24962617-eb89-42ab-b347-0855a8124c6c\/thumbnail\/620x465\/abce0bb564c3a71b7c97607bf140179d\/patrick-page.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6#\" alt=\"patrick-page.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/07\/24962617-eb89-42ab-b347-0855a8124c6c\/thumbnail\/620x465\/abce0bb564c3a71b7c97607bf140179d\/patrick-page.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/07\/24962617-eb89-42ab-b347-0855a8124c6c\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/e92a492c505c16dc1ce5d91b3d61f6be\/patrick-page.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Patrick Page in his one-man show, &#8220;All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#8220;All the Devils Are Here&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since 2017, Page has been performing his one-man show, &#8220;All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain.&#8221; As he describes it, &#8220;Their tragedy is not that they are evil; their tragedy is that, hand in hand, they <em>choose<\/em> evil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked why Shakespeare&#8217;s villains are so enduring, Page replied, &#8220;I think because we&#8217;re all interested in the darkness in ourselves. Shakespeare gives these villains true motivations, true inner lives, true back stories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In his show, Page explores the villainy of characters who still speak to us today. For example, both Heath Ledger&#8217;s Joker in &#8220;The Dark Knight&#8221; and the Wicked Witch of the West in &#8220;The Wizard of Oz,&#8221; he says, are descended from Shakespeare&#8217;s deformed-with-evil Richard III, while Walter White, in &#8220;Breaking Bad,&#8221; is very much like Macbeth. <\/p>\n<p>As terrifying as these characters are, Dowd says there&#8217;s nothing to be afraid of when it comes to Shakespeare. &#8220;With Shakespeare there are always more layers,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s a constant source of amazement, because Shakespeare was the best entertainer of all time, I would say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEB EXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/extended-interview-maureen-dowd-on-shakespeare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Extended interview &#8211; Maureen Dowd on Shakespeare<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-video embed--type-content_video is-video embed--float-left embed--size-medium\"><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/extended-interview-maureen-dowd-on-shakespeare\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__icon\"><br \/>\n            <svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n              <use xlink:href=\"#icon-video\"\/>\n            <\/svg><br \/>\n          <\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__headline\">Extended interview: Maureen Dowd on Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__video-duration\">12:35<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>For more info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patrickpageonline.com\/projects\/all-the-devils-are-here-3c130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain&#8221; by Patrick Page (patrickpageoinline.com)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.folger.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Folger Shakespeare Library<\/a>, Washington D.C.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/iraglass\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ira Glass on Instagram<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;This American Life&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/column\/maureen-dowd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Maureen Dowd, The New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/notorious-maureen-dowd?variant=42734212218914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Maureen Dowd (HarperCollins), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Notorious-Portraits-Hollywood-Culture-Fashion\/dp\/0063392224?tag=cbs-news-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amazon<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aps.harpercollins.com\/hc?isbn=9780063392229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/notorious-hollywood-fashion-and-culture-revealed-through-profiles-of-our-most-infamous-celebrities-maureen-dowd\/21698339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bookshop.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensourceshakespeare.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Open Source Shakespeare<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shakespeare.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shakespeare Birthplace Trust<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.williamshakespeare.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">williamshakespeare.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shakespearesglobe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shakespeare&#8217;s Globe<\/a>, London<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Story produced by Jay Kernis. Editor: Lauren Barnello. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Brush up your Shakespeare: <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/f-IE__oYDvg?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1\" data-optanon-category=\"essential\" data-height=\"113\" data-width=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/f-IE__oYDvg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">From the archives: Rebuilding Shakespeare\u2019s Globe Theatre<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CBSSundayMorning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS Sunday Morning<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>FROM THE ARCHIVES: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f-IE__oYDvg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rebuilding Shakespeare&#8217;s Globe Theatre (YouTube Video)<\/a><br \/><\/strong>American actor Sam Wanamaker fought for years to recreate Shakespeare&#8217;s Globe Theatre, which had burned down in 1613. He didn&#8217;t live to see a new Globe rise on the south bank of the Thames. In this Aug. 3, 1997 &#8220;Sunday Morning&#8221; report, correspondent Tom Fenton talked with actress Zoe Wanamaker about her father&#8217;s obsession, along with master builder Peter McCurdy; Mark Rylance, the actor-manager of the Globe; and American actors Christian Camargo and Steven Skybell, about bringing the immortal works of Shakespeare to life in &#8220;The Wooden O.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"chartbeat\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation component--type-recirculation-collection\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/mo-rocca\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Mo  Rocca<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Mo Rocca is an award-winning correspondent for &#8220;CBS News Sunday Morning,&#8221; where he reports on a wide range of topics. 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