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 and Bradley Manning’s Trial. What The Defense Should Have Said

Posted on August 26, 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) The trial of BC Manning has ended and the Defense Counsel did what he thought his best. I have now received an anonymous hand-written document proposing another line of Read More

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Shakespeare and the Wages of Imperialism

Posted on August 22, 2013 by jimmie

“… this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison’d chalice To our own lips” Macbeth, act 1, sc. 7 Who could still have doubts about the infamy of imperialism may examine the recent history of the Middle East. Some may still remember the war of 1991,

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Shakespeare and the Sanitization of History at Purdue University

Posted on August 5, 2013 by jimmie

“… woe upon ye, And all such false professors!” (King Henry VIII, act 3, sc. 1) In the distant 1940 Bertrand Russell wrote, “Academic freedom in this country is threatened from two sources: the plutocracy and the churches, which endeavor between them to establish an economic and a theological censorship’” 73 years later the strength Read More

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Shakespeare and Farewell to Shame

Posted on July 31, 2013 by jimmie

“I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds” Macbeth, act 4, sc. 3 For the unfamiliar Eric Holder is the US attorney general – he too partakes of the “niggerization of the plantation” to use Cornel West’s colorful expression. Meaning Read More

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The “Niggerization” of the Plantation

Posted on July 25, 2013 by jimmie

 “… like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.” (Tempest, act 2, sc. 2) Hypocrisy is a flattering tribute to power. Occasionally political power must pretend to take into account the other power from which (theoretically) draws its source. Hypocrisy is Read More

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Shakespeare, Obama and Zimmerman

Posted on July 16, 2013 by jimmie

“…And now remains That we find the cause of this effect, Or rather say, the cause of this defect, For this effect defective comes by cause: Thus it remains, and the remainder thus” Hamlet, act 2, sc. 2 Comment.  There is a curious connection or analogy between the election of Obama as President and the Read More

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Shakespeare, Snowden, Morales and Slavery to the Empire

Posted on July 8, 2013 by jimmie

“…but you are all recreants and dastards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility” King Henry VI, part 2, act 4, sc. 8 Comment.  The kidnapping of the aircraft of the President of Bolivia in concerted action by some European countries has an ominous significance and a range of clear implications.

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Shakespeare on Open-eyed Conspiracy

Posted on July 1, 2013 by jimmie

“While you here do snoring lie, Open-eyed conspiracy His time doth take. If of life you keep a care, Shake off slumber, and beware: Awake, awake!” (Tempest, act 2, sc. 2) Comment.  It is universal knowledge that, in the 1600, the Vatican Inquisition condemned Galileo for stating that the earth goes around the sun rather Read More

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Shakespeare, a Horse with Wings and a Holy Helicopter

Posted on June 20, 2013 by jimmie

“O, for a horse with wings!” (Cymbeline, act 3, sc. 2) Comment.  If avarice were not the blindest of human passions, the motives of the topic and egregiously Christian pastor in Texas might excite our curiosity. That avarice seems to prevail in his Christian mind over other Christian sentiments will be shortly documented. On the Read More

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Shakespeare and a Dialog between a US Judge and a Terrorist

Posted on June 18, 2013 by jimmie

“That which you are my thoughts cannot transpose: Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell; Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet grace must still look so.” (Macbeth, act 4, sc. 3) Comment.  In a recent Court case, defendant, failed suicide-bomber and terrorist Richard Reid admitted his guilt without apologizing Read More

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