Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Aebischer, Pascale

Titel

Tamburlaine by The Royal Shakespeare Company (review)

Ist Teil von

• Shakespeare Bulletin, 2019-04, Vol.37 (1), p.115-119

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Literature Online (LION eBooks)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The New York production's black charismatic leader may have appeared a potentially uncomfortable negative foil to "yes we can!" President Obama in the final years of his presidency (the reviews I have seen don't remark on this, but it's hard, in retrospect, not to speculate on how this may have played in the minds of audience members). (Interestingly, there is no mention of Presidents Erdogan and Assad, the strongmen occupying some of Tamburlaine's territories today.) Framed thus as an exploration of political charisma and the ruthless pursuit of power by white, predominantly right-wing leaders of dubious moral credentials, the casting of Owusu was not color-blind. [...]hard the production's framing paratexts tried to make viewers draw parallels between Tamburlaine and the likes of Trump and Putin, this production succeeded because such parallels, after a few scenes, became simply inadequate and fell by the wayside.