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A Tale of Two Pictures
A Tale of Two Pictures
Knavery’s plain face is never seen till used. Othello, act 2, sc. 1 We accept deception as an instrument of government(s), but there are instances where deception oversteps even the more tolerant bounds of disgust and nausea. I refer to the heart-rending picture of the little Kurdish dead boy (Aylan Kurdi), strewn on the foreshore of the Mediterranean. For we could not realize that, though the…
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Shakespeare, Ferguson, Reality and Symbols
Shakespeare, Ferguson, Reality and Symbols
“We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good. What authority surfeits-on would relieve us: if they would yield us but the superfluity, while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely; but they think we are too dear: the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an inventory to particularise their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them”
(Coriolanus,…
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100,000 visitors to Your Daily Shakespeare
100,000 visitors to Your Daily Shakespeare
“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 years. (more…)
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