Some online commenters have been objecting to the casting decisions in the newest film adaptation of The Odyssey. I guess, like our current Supreme Court, they are originalists.<\/p>\n
So I am sure they were just as horrified at the various Hollywood film adaptations of Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare was very clear about casting for that play.<\/p>\n
As originalists, I am sure those online commenters would be as appalled as the playwright to see Juliet being played by a woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some online commenters have been objecting to the casting decisions in the newest film adaptation of The Odyssey. I guess, like our current Supreme Court, they are originalists. So I am sure they were just as horrified at the various Hollywood film adaptations of Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare was very clear about casting for … Continue reading “Originalist casting”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28587"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28588,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28587\/revisions\/28588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}