Shakespeare Reconstructed with John McGee, PhD

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The Shakespeare Essay that Got Me Blocked by a Jordan Peterson Academy Professor
In response to my critique of his talk on Romeo & Juliet, lecturer Andrew Doyle called me “woke" and an “ideologue," then deleted all his tweets and…
 • John McGee, PhD
Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet—According to @PetersonAcademy
In his lecture for Jordan Peterson Academy, Andrew Doyle calls Romeo & Juliet's love "true" and "transcendent"—a view that's preposterously at odds with…
 • John McGee, PhD
The Other Chorus in Romeo & Juliet
In Act 2, right after the lovers’ first meeting, the Chorus calls Romeo shallow and irrational, equates his two loves and says he would have "died" for…
 • John McGee, PhD
"Apple in China" by Patrick McGee
Nothing to do with Shakespeare, but excited to share that my younger brother Patrick has just published his first book!
 • John McGee, PhD
The Second Antidote in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Does Demetrius end the play drugged? No
 • John McGee, PhD
Ugly People Shouldn't Procreate
The self-evidently satirical message of Shakespeare's “procreation sonnets”
 • John McGee, PhD
Mixed Up Lovers—And Mixed Up Critics
No, Shakespeare never romanticized two suicidal, sex-driven Italian kids
 • John McGee, PhD
Shakespeare Reconstructed with John McGee, PhD
Shakespeare Reconstructed with John McGee, PhD
Exposing Shakespeare's unrecognized satires, including Romeo & Juliet, Love's Labor's Lost and Venus & Adonis

Shakespeare Reconstructed with John McGee, PhD

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