THE 21ST CENTURY: THE AGE OF CONSENT, OR CONCERN? THE RISE OF DEMOCRATIC IMPERIALISM AND ‘FALL’ OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Keywords:
democratic imperialism, educational reforms, William Shakespeare, Peter Sellars, Bernard Shaw, Harold Pinter, Vaclav Havel, Mario Varga Llosa, Augusto BoalAbstract
This paper examines political events which have marked the opening of the 21st century and demonstrates how ‘democratic imperialism’, on the march in the world today, extorts cultural support for military interventions through ideological interference with education and the arts. Besides the rewriting of history, one of the most dangerous strategies used to promote it involves conversion of artists’ concern into consent, either through misinterpretation of old masters or through massive promotion of our contemporaries willing to be prudent and timely, that is politically correct and supportive of the neo-imperial project.
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Brook, P. (1989): The Mahabharata, film version of the great epic
Keane, J. (1999): Vaclav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts. New York: BasicBooks.
Pinter, H. (2005): Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2005. London: Faber.
Shaw, B. (1910): The Dark Lady of the Sonnets. The eserver Drama collection
Шо, Џ. Б. (1964): Лица и Наличја: Предговори Драмама. Београд: Култура
Velimirovic, N. (1916): Shakespeare – The Pananthropos
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Published
06-28-2009
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Богоева-Седлар, Љ. (2009). THE 21ST CENTURY: THE AGE OF CONSENT, OR CONCERN? THE RISE OF DEMOCRATIC IMPERIALISM AND ‘FALL’ OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Nasleđe, 6(12), 31–52. Retrieved from http://nasledje.kg.ac.rs/index.php/nasledje/article/view/175
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