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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.2041  Friday, 9 December 2005

[1] 	From: 	Tom Hodges <hodges-te@actx.edu>
	Date: 	Thursday, 08 Dec 2005 11:26:20 -0600
	Subj: 	Re: SHK 16.2023 Former Soldier Cites H5

[2] 	From: 	Nick Oulton <N.Oulton@lse.ac.uk>
	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 <hodges-te@actx.edu>
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 <N.Oulton@lse.ac.uk>
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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