{"id":12038,"date":"2016-04-21T09:41:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T13:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?p=12038"},"modified":"2016-04-21T09:41:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T13:41:31","slug":"running-the-stats-on-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2016\/04\/running-the-stats-on-shakespeare.html","title":{"rendered":"Running the Stats on Shakespeare!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Shakespeare\u2019s 400th death day comes up this weekend, so I\u2019ve done some analysis for FiveThirtyEight on which of his plays wind up taught outside English class<\/a> (and offered a few recommendations of my own):<\/p>\n

Psychology students most often encounter Shakespeare\u2019s great madmen: King Lear and Hamlet. Perhaps they\u2019re the ones to blame for the more sexualized stagings of Hamlet\u2019s confrontation with his mother. Oedipal productions of the play are such a trope that, in Jasper Fforde\u2019s modern lit-nerd comedy novel \u201cSomething Rotten<\/a>,\u201d his Hamlet character credibly complains, \u201cThe good-night kiss with Mum has got longer and longer. That Freud fellow will have a bloody nose if ever I meet him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assigning \u201cTimon of Athens\u201d to economics majors seems like it might be intended to do the same kind of filtering that organic chemistry does in pre-med. Timon, a rich man, discovers that his venal friends only love him for his riches and winds up so embittered that he retreats to a cave and tries to use the last of his money to commission an attack on his former home. If this is what riches buy, why not ignore your parents and major in art history, like you wanted? (But if you\u2019re going to stick with econ, maybe grab \u201cRichard II\u201d to see how financial mismanagement kicks off the cycle of murders and ousted kings of the rest of the histories.)<\/p>\n

Read more at FiveThirtyEight\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And if you\u2019d like a little more Shakespeare in unexpected places, Alexi Sargeant has a rewrite of Hamilton\u2019s opening number in his honor<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Then the histories came, Wars of Roses raged<\/div>\n
Our man saw his Richard limp, limping on the stage<\/div>\n
Lost the lovers in their labours, asked a boy, \u201cwhat\u2019s in his name?,\u201d<\/div>\n
Then he wrote Richard II\u2019s reign\u2026and Bolingbroke\u2019s great shame!<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Word got around, they said, \u201cThese plays are insane, man\u2026<\/div>\n
John Falstaff and Prince Hamlet springing from the same man\u2019s brain pan<\/div>\n
Get thee to the court and show the Queen how your lines scan, man<\/div>\n
And the world\u2019s gonna know your name, what\u2019s your name man?<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And if you\u2019re still not Shakespeare-sated, check out Good Tickle Brain\u2019s Shakespeare flowchart<\/a>\u00a0to pick a play to read or watch:<\/p>\n

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