pcr presents his opinion on the current attack on shakespeare;

The Demonization of Shakespeare

PCR interviewed On Target with Larry Sparano

In the United States my generation began reading Shakespeare’s plays in high school.  In universities you encountered Shakespeare in the core curriculum.  When core curriculums were abolished, English majors got further into Shakespeare and studied his sonnets.  It was the work that was admired and studied, not who Shakespeare might really have been. His use of language was studied and what his plays taught about the human condition.  Today if he is studied at all, it is likely to be his alleged homophobia, the extent of his alleged anti-semitism, his alleged racism.  In the US some universities exclude him from the curriculum.  As for England, what produced the interview below was the report that the English were decolonizing their great poet and playwright. 

In the interview I said that the attack on Shakespeare is just part of the decades old white gentile/Jewish intellectual attack on Western white gentile civilization.  It is an involved intellectual story that I have told in past times.  To keep it simple, the Enlightenment placed moral demands on society, but emerging science denied the existence of morality.  So how did the moral demands express themselves?  They expressed themselves in attacks on existing society for its lack of morality as exampled by colonies, slavery, class privileges, and so forth.

As time passed, liberals in England and later in the United States, originally just an adjunct of England, pursued reforms by denunciation of existing society, not by emphasizing past achievements and making a persuasive case for another reform.  So the practice of denouncing what exists became the avenue for progress.........more........