Monthly Archives: April 2013

Shakespeare and the Suspension of Belief

Sit down awhile; And let us once again assail your ears, That are so fortified against our story… (Hamlet, act 1, sc. 1) Comment. There is a common theme in American history that is impossible to ignore and it affects the most extraordinary events. Namely, the nation has the most state-of-the-art, expanded, expensive, capillary,  massive, Read More

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Shakespeare, Thatcher, Chavez,Two Funerals and One Abyss

“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.” (Hamlet, act 4, sc. 3)   Comment. Nothing can better represent the chasm, the divide, the dichotomy and the abyss between the classes of the 1% and of the 99%  than Read More

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Shakespeare, Boston, Texas and a Tale of Two Tragedies

“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes” (Julius Caesar, act 2, scene 2) Comment. The April 15 bombing in Boston continues to dominate the American corporate media. The blasts killed three people and injured over 170. However, a much more deadly explosion, the West Fertilizer Read More

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Shakespeare, the Boston Bombing and Truth, Hidden or in Plain View

“If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.” (Hamlet, act 2, sc. 2) Comment. It is too early to know the whole story behind of the Boston bombing – if we will ever know. But from a minimally logical consideration, “it must follow as Read More

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Shakespeare, Indignation, Orwell, Doublethink, and Corporate Media

“…O, forfend it, God, That in a Christian climate souls refined Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed!” (King Richard II, act 4, sc. 1) Comment. To add adjectives to the Boston horror is useless. That beings supposedly human be capable of such an act voids the very meaning of humanity. Sociologically speaking, however, Read More

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Shakespeare, Macbeth, Power, Greed, War on Drugs or War on the Poor

 “… Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires.” (Macbeth, act 1, sc. 4) Comment.  Deciphering the motives of the attitudes of men is as interesting as to determine the characteristics of a mineral or a plant. To instill an attitude into the crowd, the “monster with uncounted heads”, assault Read More

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Shakespeare and Good Wine, take 2

“The second property of an excellent sherris is, – the warming of the blood, which, before cold and settled, left the liver white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice: but the sherris warms it, makes it course from the inward to the parts extremes. It illumines the face: which, as a Read More

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Shakespeare and the Undermining of the Social Compact

“Undoing all, as all had never been!” (King Henry VI, part 2, act 1, sc. 1)   Comment. And so it has come to this, after the ‘war on drugs’ and the ‘war on terror’ we have the ‘war on Social Security’ and the ‘war on Medicare’. For the many (thank you) international friends of Read More

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Shakespeare, Thatcher and British Society

“Thou know’st ‘tis common – all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.” (Hamlet, act 1, sc. 2) Comment. That Margaret Thatcher would make as much noise with her death as with her life was expected and inevitable –  inevitable as the cycle of life in Queen Gertrude’s words to Hamlet. Thatcher imposed Read More

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Shakespeare and Mass Manipulation

“Faith, there have been many great men that have flattered the people, who never loved them; and there be many that have loved, they know not wherefore; so that, if they love they know not why, they hate upon no better a ground.” (Coriolanus, act 2, sc.2) Comment.  As a means to influence society free Read More

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