“‘Macbeth’, Act I, Scene 3, the Weird Sisters“ (1783)
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if you thought “The Kingdom of Denmark
vs Hamlet“ was fun, you’ll love “The
Kingdom of Scotland vs the Weird
Sisters“, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg presides, with
the assistance of four other eminent
American judges, over the case in
which the defendants, the witches
who encounter Macbeth, are accused
of concocting the murder of Duncan,
King of Scotland, by that unsuspecting
Thane of Glamis, soon to be Thane of
Cawdor, not only predicting it, but
verily perpetrating it
double, double, toil, indeed, and
trouble, topical allusions fly, pithy,
witty, pungent, delightful late night
comedy fare, but of a more esoteric,
effete order
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“Ideal portrait of Shakespeare“ (c.1775)
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since I’m on the subject of Hamlet,
here‘s the most fun production
I’ve seen since I can remember,
the trial of said Hamlet before
the High Court of the Kingdom
of Denmark vs Himself, for the
murder of Polonius, chief
counsellor of the new King,
Claudius, after the death of
Hamlet, père, brother to Claudius,
Greek, nearly, already, tragedy
Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States, presides,
Abbe Lowell, counsel for both
Jared Kushner, and Ivanka Trump
recently in the matter of Russian
interference, argues for the
defense, while Jessie K. Liu, U.S.
Attorney for the District of
Columbia, is the prosecution
the stakes are high, not only for
Hamlet
the participants put on quite a
show, however erudite, they
all deliver in utter spades
you’ll relish the surprisingly
multifarious quotations you
might not, you thought, ‘ve
got, of Shakespeare, you’ll be
amazed to find that you’re not
that much out of touch with
these not so daunting, after
all, considerations
much art, in other words, is only
as far away as one’s curiosity,
one’s acknowledgement, much
of it is already in our system, in
our cultural DNA, all that’s
needed to take it in is our
attention
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