{"id":10763,"date":"2017-02-28T09:23:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T13:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10763"},"modified":"2017-02-28T15:38:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T19:38:43","slug":"corruptible-crown-review-king-charles-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2017\/02\/corruptible-crown-review-king-charles-iii.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Corruptible Crown&#8221;: I review &#8220;King Charles III&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>at First Things:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Standard\">The most reactionary thing about <i>King Charles III<\/i>, the modern Shakespeare pastiche playing through March 18 at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, is that nobody kneels to the king.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><i>Charles<\/i>, written by Mike Bartlett and directed by David Muse, takes place in the near future, between the obsequies for Queen Elizabeth II and the coronation of her successor. Bartlett imagines a Prince of Wales who has been unwittingly training himself for dictatorial self-assertion. His conscience\u2014and perhaps also his resentment of the long years waiting for the throne\u2014propels him into a conflict with Parliament over a bill to restrict the tabloid news. No side escapes morally unscathed from the spiral of escalating norm-violations that ensues, and by the play\u2019s climax the British government seems on the verge of collapse.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2017\/02\/corruptible-crown\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a> (MAJOR KNEELING-RELATED SPOILERS)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at First Things: The most reactionary thing about King Charles III, the modern Shakespeare pastiche playing through March 18 at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, is that nobody kneels to the king. 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