This Mythic Quest: Quarantine review contains spoilers.
On March 14, just as much of the country began quarantining due to the coronavirus pandemic, writer/musician Rosanne Cash tweeted out a now-viral missive: “Just a reminder that when Shakespeare was quarantined because of the plague, he wrote King Lear.” Since then, Shakespeare and his damned King Lear have loomed over isolated creative types stuck indoors like an unseen, successful older brother. Billy made the best of the bad situation so why can’t your lazy ass? Suffice it to say, living through a global pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and completely upended daily life as we know it has proven to be not that conducive to the creative process.
That’s why all pandemic-related entertainment efforts, few as they may be thus far, have come with an unspoken asterisk of “created under difficult conditions – please assess and judge in that context.
On March 14, just as much of the country began quarantining due to the coronavirus pandemic, writer/musician Rosanne Cash tweeted out a now-viral missive: “Just a reminder that when Shakespeare was quarantined because of the plague, he wrote King Lear.” Since then, Shakespeare and his damned King Lear have loomed over isolated creative types stuck indoors like an unseen, successful older brother. Billy made the best of the bad situation so why can’t your lazy ass? Suffice it to say, living through a global pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and completely upended daily life as we know it has proven to be not that conducive to the creative process.
That’s why all pandemic-related entertainment efforts, few as they may be thus far, have come with an unspoken asterisk of “created under difficult conditions – please assess and judge in that context.
- 5/22/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
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