Category Archives: Shakespeare Invocations

Invocations are means to express our emotions, of pleasure, pain and just about everything in between. Shakespeare is an original, elegant and effective source of invocations. Depending on circumstances, the invocation may or may not work, but its utterer will likely be remembered.

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

Posted on April 15, 2013 by jimmie

 “… 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, Victoria Secret and the Corruption of Neo-liberal Capitalism

Posted on March 29, 2013 by jimmie

“…she that sets seeds and roots of shame and iniquity” (Pericles, act 4, sc. 6) Comment. The appellation, let alone the profession of moralist is historically suspect. Who has the qualifications or the right to dictate moral canons to others? For this reason morality is inevitably intertwined with theological opinions – opinions that, supposedly coming Read More

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Shakespeare and leaked-out Video of Torture inside US Prison

Posted on March 25, 2013 by jimmie

“I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes.” (Hamlet, act 1, sc. 1) Comment. The video (link following comment) speaks by itself. It is posted here because there are still some who believe that the US administration and governments are the mirrors of democracy and staunch defenders and Read More

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Shakespeare, Murder, the Iraq War and a Letter from a Dying Soldier

Posted on March 20, 2013 by jimmie

“Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange and unnatural” (Hamlet, act 1, sc. 5) Comment.  It is the 10th Anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, when the arrogant ostentation of a nauseating, foul, debased and humanly-worthless elite thought it was courageous to destroy a small and independent country. Read More

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Shakespeare on Wall Street

Posted on March 18, 2013 by jimmie

“If that be right which Warwick says is right There is no wrong, but everything is right.” (King Henry VI, part 3, act 2, sc. 2) Comment. Few will disagree that these days it is increasingly difficult to make sense of banks and of the law (at least as banks are concerned). And while bankers Read More

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Shakespeare, Crowds in St. Peter’s Square and the Pope

Posted on March 14, 2013 by jimmie

“… is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight?” (King Henry IV, part 1, act 5, sc. 3) Comment. Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) was a French sociologist famous for his study of the behavior of crowds. His book “The Crowd – A Study of the Popular Mind” is instructive. As it is the case with Read More

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Shakespeare on a Brave and Courageous Man

Posted on March 5, 2013 by jimmie

“His life was gentle: and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, This was a man!” (Julius Caesar, act 5, sc. 2)  Comment. Here are the words of Cindy Sheehan, “Hugo Chavez, Presente! Presente! Presente! I am devastated that my dear friend, President Hugo Chavez Read More

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Shakespeare on the Overwhelming Power of Illusion

Posted on March 4, 2013 by jimmie

“Mine eyes are made the fools o’ the other senses” (Macbeth act 2, sc. 1) Comment. In a previous post, see Feb 28, “Suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox…” there is a reference to a very long video by a Danish Professor, interviewed Read More

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Shakespeare, Macbeth and Obama’s Jokes on Death by Drones

Posted on February 23, 2013 by jimmie

Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” (Macbeth, act 5, sc. 5) Comment. During a White House Correspondents Dinner, President Read More

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Shakespeare, Antony, the Roman Empire and the American Empire

Posted on February 17, 2013 by jimmie

“Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.” (Antony and Cleopatra, act 1, sc. 1) Comment. When assessing empires it pays to compare the Roman with the American Empire. The Roman Empire subdued other nations, in particular Greece. But the Romans had almost a reverential Read More

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