Does Oregon Shakespeare Festival Violate Civil Rights Law?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Shakespeare already is written in Modern English though. What is the point in updating Shakespeare so the language is flat and uninteresting?

Yeah, I couldn't care less about the quota business, but this entire project is blatant and brazen cultural  murder.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I think part of the idea is to update it to the modern idiom as is done with modern translations of Shakespeare into other languages.

Yes, but why? Shakespeare is perfectly understandable in his own words, and those words, of course, have a huge literary value in themselves. How boring and how arrogant to insist that the text must be 'updated'. Why? What for? To make up for the widespread cultural shortcomings created a deficient education system?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

There's plenty that's not actually perfectly understandable to a modern audience in his own words.

So long as that modern audience is sufficiently well-educated in one of the most important bodies of work in the English language (should this not be a major part of formal education? Else what is it even for?) there should be no problem. Therefore, if there is a problem then it is clearly with an education system that has apparently produced a nation of halfwits, rather than with one of the highlights of human achievement.