We can see our current electoral politics, and the threats to social order, in Shakespeare’s “Tempest.”
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Tag Archives: William Shakespeare
The Loneliness of the Tyrant
Trump is a Richard III figure. A Robert Hayden poem tells us how to counter him.
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Mercutio’s False Equivalence
Mercutio’s words, “A plague on both your houses,” can be damaging if applied to our current two political parties.
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Measure for Measure and Our Religious Hypocrites
Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, about a pious but corrupt judge, captures many of our own political figures that are brandishing their religion.
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The Madness of Donald Trump
In which I compare Trump’s madness with that of King Lear.
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The Taming of the Electorate
Petruchio’s gaslighting in “Taming of the Shrew” helps us to understand authoritarian tactics in our own age.
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Richard III and Epstein’s Crimes
In which I report on an article applying Shakespeare’s “Richard III” to the Epstein fallout.
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T.S. Eliot, Tolkien, Gaiman, and ICE
A post associating a T.S. Eliot quotation, a Tolkien passage, and a Gaiman episode from “American Gods” with ICE’s withdrawal from Minnesota.
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