Dude’s Shakespeare credentials are legit, and his point is more complex than this subheading lets on.
But in the end, this essay reads like a comicon fanboy screed bemoaning aberrations from “originalist” canon.

There’s not really a joke there?

What a Gumpian life! Members of the pre-Mamas & Papas, dodged the Manson murders, co-wrote the Muppet pilot, won an Oscar for Annie Hall. His obit is a wild ride

I’ve never read it, and preferring to go in as blind as possible, why do you read it this time of year? Can I wait until January?

I would like to opt out of finding out, I was not doing any of the fucking around.

The only thing worse is when that “how” is preceded by “Here’s”

I lived in Samoa when it was the farthest west land mass before the International Date Line and then visited after it legally relocated to the eastern side of the IDL.
Geography is kinda arbitrary.