Shakespeare References in Stupid White Men

I’ve been re-reading some of my old books, and it seemed a good time to revisit Stupid White Men. There are two Shakespeare references in the book. Well, really, there is just one, for the second one comes in the “Notes And Sources” section. Moore writes: “And who gives a rat’s ass if, out of the seventy English Literature programs at seventy major American universities, only twenty-three now require English majors to take a course in Shakespeare? Can somebody please explain to me what Shakespeare and English have to do with each other? What good are some moldy old plays going to be in the business world, anyway?” (p.92). The other reference, as I mentioned, comes in the “Notes And Sources” section for Chapter 5, specifically a title of a New York Times article. That article is “Much Ado – Yawn – About Great Books” by Emily Eakon, the title obviously a play on Much Ado About Nothing.

Stupid White Men was published in 2001. My copy is a First Edition.