“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Macbeth

 From The New Yorker

This past weekend, a front-page story in the Times discussed which of Shakespeare’s doomed rulers Trump most resembled: Julius Caesar, Richard III, or King Lear..

Wrong. The correct answer is Macbeth: 

Those he commands move only in command,
Nothing in love. Now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.

1 comment:

lilah said...

Thank you, this same error made me throw my hair comb across the room. I'm a violent woman.