The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.2041 Friday, 9 December 2005
[1] From: Tom Hodges <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 08 Dec 2005 11:26:20 -0600
Subj: Re: SHK 16.2023 Former Soldier Cites H5
[2] From: Nick Oulton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 9 Dec 2005 09:39:23 -0000
Subj: RE: SHK 16.2023 Former Soldier Cites H5
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From: Tom Hodges <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 08 Dec 2005 11:26:20 -0600
Subject: 16.2023 Former Soldier Cites H5
Comment: Re: SHK 16.2023 Former Soldier Cites H5
Therefore, now when some pro-war soldier alludes to Shakespeare, we'll
read about it on Shaksper? Hardy, diligent and insightful--indeed
invaluable-- benefactor to us all, just because R. Burt has shatte in
his hatte, you need not clappe it upon your owne hedde. Thanks for
99.99% of what you do for us. Shaksper brightens my day. TH
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From: Nick Oulton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 9 Dec 2005 09:39:23 -0000
Subject: 16.2023 Former Soldier Cites H5
Comment: RE: SHK 16.2023 Former Soldier Cites H5
It's good to know that Joseph Turcotte is reading Shakespeare. I hope he
will extend his reading to include Macbeth. As every reader of this list
knows, Macbeth describes how a foreign army invades another country,
overthrows a horrible tyrant with an appalling human rights record, and
replaces his regime with a legitimate government.
I know that it is fashionable to re-interpret Shakespeare's plays in the
light of whatever is the current preoccupation of what we in Britain
call the chattering classes. How strange that while everyone cites Henry
V, no-one ever seems to mention Macbeth! Could it be that enrolling
Shakespeare among the supporters of George W. Bush and Tony Blair is a
prospect just too ghastly to contemplate?
Nick Oulton
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