shakespeare he's in the alley
Shakespeare wrote his plays because he believed that the world was not a good enough place for his magnificent people.Yet he offered no solutions to their problems.
‘Romeo & Juliet’.
When the lovers die the businessmen are shamed or moved into reconciliation.But the peace between the Montagues and the Capulets will not survive the next business crisis..
‘Titus Andronicus’.
The excesses of Titus are a small town scandal compared to the Nazi death camps.How much trouble it costs Lear to learn the simple lesson that those who try to leap over the grave fall into it.All the victims of Shakespeare’s play would not fill one of your death pits.How small his world.How unambitious his villains.King Richard the Third with his little princes,his brother,a few officers and a little army-for one crown and a few years in office to protect his life in office.Yet to protect their way of life,to make it possible for them to go about their business and enjoy their pleasure, millions have been slaughtered in this century.
Compared to the vast multitude of dead they make to protect their way of life,Richard was a child sitting on the floor playing with a doll.
‘Macbeth’
Is this a dagger that I see before me?I look up and above me screams a jet armed with nuclear weapons-one of them on practice alert.
-Edward Bond
‘Romeo & Juliet’.
When the lovers die the businessmen are shamed or moved into reconciliation.But the peace between the Montagues and the Capulets will not survive the next business crisis..
‘Titus Andronicus’.
The excesses of Titus are a small town scandal compared to the Nazi death camps.How much trouble it costs Lear to learn the simple lesson that those who try to leap over the grave fall into it.All the victims of Shakespeare’s play would not fill one of your death pits.How small his world.How unambitious his villains.King Richard the Third with his little princes,his brother,a few officers and a little army-for one crown and a few years in office to protect his life in office.Yet to protect their way of life,to make it possible for them to go about their business and enjoy their pleasure, millions have been slaughtered in this century.
Compared to the vast multitude of dead they make to protect their way of life,Richard was a child sitting on the floor playing with a doll.
‘Macbeth’
Is this a dagger that I see before me?I look up and above me screams a jet armed with nuclear weapons-one of them on practice alert.
-Edward Bond

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