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Mike, my goodness…
Steven
Steven Svoboda
Attorneys for the Rights of the Child
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The feminist insanity continues unabated!! Good God!
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On the theme of Shakespeare I can recommend “Hamnet”. Of course much is made of the female lead. But actually the full story is surprisingly “traditional”. Agnes Hathaway is a bit of a mystic in one of those “women’s ways of knowing” sort of ways. And she is, as in real life, quite a bit older than the teenage William Shakespeare when they marry. Her mother dies, father re marries and dies and so the “head of the household” is her Brother, again true to reality that even quite young as he is he takes on responsibility for his widowed step mother, his sister and half sisters. Expecting a “patriarch” in fact he turns out to be hard working, loving, open minded and in the end repairs a relationship. William himself is restless, impatient but loving and doting on his children. With his wife’s blessing the still very young William goes to london to get into theatre. Of course he does so but constantly returns to his family. He wants to bring his family to london but it her, Agnes, who doesn’t want to go because she worries about the “bad air” there. As William’s career blossoms he decides to build a house for his family (which includes his mother and sister as well as Agnes and their children. Long story short his son “Hamnet” dies of the plague, Agnes is distraught and because William didn’t get home in time to say goodbye to his son, in her grief she blames him and pushes him away. He grieves too and we see him contemplating suicide in London. Some time later her Brother persuades Agnes to go to London to see a new play “Hamlet”. They first visit William’s “digs” a one room garret office and bedroom. As a rhetorical question Agnes’s brother asks “why would the man with the biggest house in Stratford live here?” She sees the obvious answer all his funds go to his family in Stratford. They go to the play and the conceit is that lines between Hamlet and his father’s ghost both express William’s grief while the character of Hamlet and appearance mirrors Hamnet. William and Agnes understand their grief.
My point is that the two key male characters Bartholomew (Agnes’s brother) and William Shakespeare are rounded characters of their time. The latter loving and devoted to both his career but also his family and their wellbeing the former steady, sensible and wise. Rather than the sort of “deconstruction” of “patriarchy” one is used to all the characters play their roles in their society generally well meaning and very human. For instance despite the fact he’s a teenager it is William who is threatened with a court for getting Agnes pregnant. Bartholomew and William both simply take on the role of head of their families including widowed mothers and siblings and they try to do “the right thing”. And of course its clear that William shows his love for his family by being the breadwinner and providing, necessarily distanced so they can enjoy the “good air” of a country home close to London so he can come home often. And both grieve for their lost Hamnet, but in different ways. These days its unusual to find something without the male lead/s being cardboard cut out unfeeling or even abusive. Specially “historical”.
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Harriet Harman will be making an announcement about this, as further evidence of structural misogyny.
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