How Shakespeare Weaponized English: Language as a Tool of Imperial Control
When Shakespeare wrote The Tempest in 1611, he wasn't just crafting entertainment. He was creating a blueprint for cultural domination that would spread English across the globe. In this episode, Casey reveals how the Bard's plays became weapons of imperial expansion, transforming a language spoken by 5 million into today's global tongue of 1.5 billion speakers. 🎯 What You'll Learn: • Why The Tempest reads like a colonizer's manual (and Prospero's island mirrors British colonial strategy) • How Shakespeare's plays reached American colonies by the 1750s, planting English cultural roots deep in…
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