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minus-squareummthatguy@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·16 days agoFrom Undiscovered Country Why it was specifically used there, I couldn’t tell you.
minus-squaresomeguy3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·16 days agoI’m asking for a deeper origin of the joke.
minus-squareummthatguy@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·16 days agoFound it per wiki: The film’s director Nicholas Meyer said the idea for having the Klingons claim Shakespeare as their own was based on Nazi Germany’s attempt to claim William Shakespeare as German before World War II.
minus-squareSatyrSacklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·16 days agoDid Chekhov ever claim Shakespeare to be Russian?
From Undiscovered Country
Why it was specifically used there, I couldn’t tell you.
I’m asking for a deeper origin of the joke.
Found it per wiki:
Fascinating.
Did Chekhov ever claim Shakespeare to be Russian?
We gotta go deeper