Category Archives: Shakespeare in Politics

Shakespeare is an almost endless source of befitting situation for any occasion. The opinion on King Lear on authority may not be very orthodox, a dog obeyed in office. The quote may be included in a variety of situation, even during a business presentation or after dinner speech as an ironic self-effacing statement by a recognized authority.

Shakespeare & the Dizzying Number of US Enemies

Posted on September 30, 2014 by jimmie

“…I know, to divide them inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory” Hamlet, act 5, sc. 2 That America has enemies is a truth ascertained by the eminent George W. Bush in 2001. However questionable and suspicious the whole 9/11 business was (and still is), he said it happened because “they envy our freedoms.” The Read More

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Shakespeare, Geography and Education

Posted on September 16, 2014 by jimmie

EVANS. I pray you, have your remembrance, child; Accusativo, hing, hang, hog. MISTRESS QUICKLY. Hang hog is Latin for bacon, I warrant you. (Merry Wives of Windsor, act 4, sc.1) Even the regime media had a good time in reporting the comments of an unnamed, though well-placed senior State Department High Priest who, when in Read More

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Shakespeare, Injustice and Careers

Posted on September 12, 2014 by jimmie

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.” (Measure For Measure, act 2, sc.1) On September 5, 2014, Henry McCollum and his half  brother Leon Brown left their North Carolina prison– where they spent 30 years for a Read More

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Shakespeare, New-speak, Double-think & Black-white

Posted on September 1, 2014 by jimmie

“A crafty knave does need no broker” (KHVI p2.1.2) Readers of this blog will no doubt have independently observed the current and ever-increasing instances of “Orwellian moments” in the speeches, utterings and “new-speak” declarations by regime pundits, or in sundry statements printed on the regime media. “New-speak” is too familiar to require explanations. But as Read More

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Shakespeare & Murder at Sarajevo, part 2

Posted on August 11, 2014 by jimmie

“… hie thee from this slaughter-house, Lest thou increase the number of the dead” (King Richard III, act 4, sc. 1) In Aug 1914 millions of young people marched to their death as merry as the singers in the stars. Hamlet would say, “…I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a Read More

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Shakespeare and Murder at Sarajevo

Posted on August 4, 2014 by jimmie

“Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.” (Macbeth, act 1, sc. 5) Part 1 During this summer of our discontent, much has been said and written about the massacre of the Palestinians in Gaza, the civil war in Ukraine and the downing of the Read More

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Shakespeare, Communists and Watermelons

Posted on July 26, 2014 by jimmie

“…and begin To doubt the equivocation of the fiend That lies like truth” (Macbeth, act 5, sc. 1) When to the session of sweet silent thought, we summon up remembrance of things past…  we may recall the name of Rachel Carson, marine biologist, writer and author of the epoch-making “Silent Spring”.

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Shakespeare, French Revolution and World War One

Posted on July 15, 2014 by jimmie

“The cannons have their bowels full of wrath, And ready mounted are they to spit forth Their iron indignation ‘gainst your walls” King John, act 2, sc. 1 This year’s July features two important anniversaries. On July 14th, 1789, the people of Paris stormed the prison of the Bastille, triggering the start of the French Read More

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Shakespeare and Selective Media Silence

Posted on July 7, 2014 by jimmie

 “… lend me ten thousand eyes, And I will fill them with prophetic tears” Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc. 2 The migration of unaccompanied children from Guatemala, Honduras and San Salvador to the United States has caught for an instant the eye of the regime media. For reference, there are 1600 miles from Guatemala Read More

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Shakespeare & Independence Day

Posted on June 30, 2014 by jimmie

“…Believe my words, For they are certain and unfallible.” (King Henry VI part 1, act 1, sc. 2) So says the Duke of Orleans after explaining to the King of France that Joan of Arc is really endowed with supernatural powers. In a somewhat similar vein, the opening words of the American Declaration of Independence Read More

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