Plenty. Although the Cornhusker State's antipathy toward the greatest writer of the English language is not immediately recognizable.
A bit of background. Several states — red states, of course — have proposed more than 150 anti-transgender bills that ban, for instance, "transition care (not just surgery, but counseling and the like) into young adulthood" and teachers using pronouns that match a student's gender identity, while also mandating that school officials "'out transgender students to their parents."
Are these states — the usual suspects — proposing these bills because they believe transition counseling or certain pronoun usages are harmful to young people? No. They're doing so because "this is a political winner," as Terry Schilling, president of the conservative American Principles Project, told The NY Times in what was probably an unguarded moment. To such cynically opportunistic minds, anti-transgender mania is but a natural progression of the right's anticritical-race-theory hysteria which it so successfully whipped up.
But this piece of legislation, in Nebraska, wins the much-coveted Savonarola Prize for witless censorship:
[It] would apply to any show whose "main aspect [is] a performer which exhibits a gender identity that is different than the performer’s gender assigned at birth using clothing, makeup, or other physical markers; and the performer sings, lip syncs, dances, or otherwise performs before an audience for entertainment."
That's quite the broad wording. As such, Nebraska's bill would outlaw the public presentation of several Shakespeare plays: "The Merchant of Venice," "As You Like It," and "Twelfth Night." Gone would be Portia as a law clerk, Rosalind as Ganymede, and Viola as Cesario. In Shakespeare's era, female characters were played by cross-dressing males. Today, women actors dressed like men in Omaha or Lincoln would still be banned from performing Shakespeare.
My guess would be that the farmer-legislators of Nebraska aren't particularly familiar with the world's greatest plays and greatest playwright, and therefore knew not what they did. But that's the nut of it, is it not? The far right's various cultural campaigns for political profit are carried out with no real knowledge of real culture. The apotheosis of this quasi-fascistic ignorance — book burnings — occurred in Nazi Germany.
And so with each day and each countercultural bill, America's far right looks more and more like ...