has been about how Shakespeare stays alive by being reinvented on all sorts of different cultural media." "They sort of became lifelong Swifties so I kind of followed along."īate argues Swift is more than just a best selling pop star - she has a literary sensibility worthy of some of history's great writers. so I bought the CD - those were the days of CDs - and gave it to my daughter who was nine I think and she gave it to all her friends," Bate told RNZ Afternoons. this country and western artist Taylor Swift. "I went up to the counter and said to the girl behind it, oh that's a great song, who's it by, and she said. The lyrics of Taylor Swift's Love Story, about a girl on a balcony and a boy who comes to rescue him, had captured his attention. In a bookstore, 25 minutes south of where the Beatles were born Bate had an unexpected encounter with a modern interpretation of Romeo and Juliet. There's even a Buzzfeed quiz comparing her lyrics with lines from Shakespeare's poems.Įminent Shakespeare scholar and former Oxford professor Sir Jonathan Bate, who is quite the Swiftie himself, got them all right. What do Taylor Swift and William Shakespeare have in common? More than you might think, it turns out.
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