Originally published at crisis magazine
[Editor’s Note: This is the twenty-sixth in a multi-part series on the unsung heroes of Christendom.]
Why, one wonders, should one of the most famous people in history be featured as one of the unsung heroes of Christendom? This would seem to be a good question until we realize that most people do not perceive Shakespeare as a hero of Christendom. He is sung, to be sure. He is sung more widely and more loudly than almost anyone. But he is not sung in tune.
On the contrary, he is sung out of tune. His songs are sung discordantly and disgracefully by a whole motley of meddlesome modernists and postmodernists. He is the victim of radical feminists, Marxist theorists, queer theorists, Nietzschean nihilists, post-colonialists, anti-racists, and woke dogmatists, none of whom know who Shakespeare was, how he sung, or what he was singing about.
In order to sing as Shakespeare sung, we need to understand that his Muse, the source of inspiration for all his music, was profoundly Catholic.
Orthodox. Faithful. Free.
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