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Delilah
May 9, 2023 19:45:40 GMT
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Post by mulv on May 9, 2023 19:45:40 GMT
Currently at uke club and someone had suggesting playing Delilah.
I'm not sure we should be celebrating marital murder - am I being a prude?
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Delilah
May 9, 2023 20:11:48 GMT
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Post by Su on May 9, 2023 20:11:48 GMT
We’ve all thought it 🔪 🩸 👰🏻♀️
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Post by tom on May 10, 2023 1:55:22 GMT
Do we ban Shakespeare ?
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Delilah
May 10, 2023 18:56:51 GMT
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Post by mulv on May 10, 2023 18:56:51 GMT
I think that's a false equivalence.
The plays with murders in are always titled "The Tragedy Of..." and were written as moral tales. Elizabethans and Jacobeans absolutely loved a tragedy as long as the baddy didn't get away with it.
The villains in Shakespeare get their comeuppance - always finishing up dead.
Delilah was written a pure entertainment and has no decent moral to it. "If you sleep with someone else I'll kill you" isn't really the sort of message we need to be portraying, especially given that two women a week are murdered by their male partners or ex-partners.
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Post by tom on May 10, 2023 20:12:24 GMT
Murder is murder, no matter how its performed, Shakespeare wouldn't be Shakespeare without a bit of bloodletting and I'm pretty sure he didn't write them as moralistic tales.
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Delilah
May 10, 2023 20:56:36 GMT
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Post by mulv on May 10, 2023 20:56:36 GMT
He absolutely did. His plays were under strict scrutiny. Several of his and other playwrights work had to be partly re-written before they were allowed to be be performed in public. "...the City authorities introduced a system of control and censorship and any inn holding performances was required to hold a licence and donate certain sums of money to hospitals within the City. Each play was obliged to be first performed before the mayor and aldermen prior to its public performance..." www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/elizabethan-theatre/ |
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