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Syriza, Not So Greek to Us

Posted on March 6, 2015 by jimmie

CASSIUS Did Cicero say any thing? CASCA Ay, he spoke Greek. CASSIUS  To what effect? CASCA (I don’t know)… but those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own part, it was Greek to me. Julius Caesar, act 1, sc. 2 It was almost inevitable that the meteoric Read More

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Shakespeare, Heroism and ‘Heroism’

Posted on February 2, 2015 by jimmie

“Either our history shall, with full mouth, Speak freely of our acts; or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipp’d with a waxen epitaph.” King Henry V, act 1, sc. 2 For the following notes, there is no need of a muse of fire to ascend the brightest heaven Read More

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Shakespeare and Memories for 2014

Posted on December 30, 2014 by jimmie

When to the session of sweet silent thought, we summon up remembrance of things past…. (Sonnet # 30) …. as we do at the end of the year, our memories for 2014 include, among other things, three historical anniversaries. One hundred years since World War I, six hundred years since the real First World War, fought Read More

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Shakespeare and Disbelief

Posted on November 30, 2014 by jimmie

“Most noble sir, That which I shall report will bear no credit, Were not the proof so nigh.” Timon of Athens, act 5, sc. 1 At the United Nations, a motion was recently tabled to condemn the glorification of Nazism. USA, Canada and Ukraine voted against the motion.

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Shakespeare, Murder and Video Games

Posted on October 27, 2014 by jimmie

“…the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape” (Hamlet, act 2, sc. 2) Anita Sarkeesian is a feminist with a creative talent. A critic of video games, she analyses how women are therein portrayed, and how the implicit messages are diffused to players at large. The lady caight media attention for having been forced Read More

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100,000 Visitors to Your Daily Shakespeare

Posted on October 1, 2014 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 Yesterday, Sep 30, 2014, this site welcomed its unknown but appreciated one hundred thousandth visitor, in about two and a half 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, 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, Truth and Malaysian Flight MH17

Posted on August 28, 2014 by jimmie

“… he will lie, sir, with such volubility,that you would think truth were a fool” All’s Well That Ends Well, act 4, sc. 3 Readers will no doubt have noticed the stony silence of both the regime media and of the Administration about the investigation on how flight MH17 was brought down and by whom.

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Shakespeare, Ferguson and Crowds

Posted on August 19, 2014 by jimmie

“I will no more trust him when he leers, than I will a serpent when he hisses.” Troilus and Cressida, act 5, sc. 1 Dr. Johnson used to say that the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and Read More

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