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 on Despair

Posted on November 18, 2013 by jimmie

 “…is it sin To rush into the secret house of death, Ere death dare come to us? “ (Antony and Cleopatra, act 4) According to current statistics 22 US Veterans commit suicide daily!  Recently, the New York Times published the suicide note of Daniel Somers, a 30-year-old war veteran from Phoenix, Arizona who shot himself Read More

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Shakespeare on a new Wall Street Shylock

Posted on November 10, 2013 by jimmie

“How quickly nature falls into revolt, When gold becomes her object!” King Henry IV part 2, act 4, sc. 4 SAC Capital Advisors, one of the most profitable hedge funds in history, pleaded guilty to security and wire fraud charges last week. SAC carried out insider trading “on a scale without known precedent”, according to Read More

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Shakespeare – Wars, Sex, Bikinis and Democracy

Posted on August 17, 2013 by jimmie

… wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion: a burning devil take them! (Troilus and Cressida, act 5, sc. 2) Forest Grove is a suburb of the (unfortunately) sprawling greater Portland (Oregon). And while America has established (imposed) 140 military bases in Italy, Americans have developed a taste for Italian espresso in their home land. Read More

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Shakespeare and the Real Planetary Terror

Posted on August 11, 2013 by jimmie

“And strength by limping sway disabled, And art made tongue-tied by authority, And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill, And simple truth miscalled simplicity, And captive good attending captain ill…” (Sonnet 66) Sonnet 66 reflects the state of mind (and soul) of many – even of those who, within themselves, have not given up the fight for Read More

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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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Shakespeare, Mandela, Myth and Celebrations

Posted on July 19, 2013 by jimmie

“To solemnize this day, the glorious sun Stays his course, and plays the alchymist; Turning, with splendour of his precious eye, The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold.”  (King John, act 3, sc. 1) Comment.  When a man becomes a myth to say anything un-mythical partakes of the sacrilegious – even if the dissonance from Read More

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Shakespeare and the Confirmation Hearing of the FBI Director

Posted on July 12, 2013 by jimmie

“The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest.” (Merchant of Venice, act 3, sc. 2) Comment. Watching a Senate confirmation hearing is a trying experience. Not because of the confirmation per se, but due to the abyss separating appearance from reality. Especially in the recent instance – the appointment of the Read More

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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 and the Treason of Public Trust. Who is the criminal?

Posted on June 25, 2013 by jimmie

“Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either’s purpose” (King Henry V, act 2, sc. 2) Comment.  Rarely an episode shows the symbolic meaning of things and the current patterns of society as the recent developments arising from Edward Snowden’s revelations. Revelations about the immense spying operation by the US Government Read More

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