Besides, Shakespeare liked nothing better than whipping the citizenry into a patriotic fervor. He wrote a whole cycle of history plays to justify the Tudors' ways to Englishmen. Think: Henry V's St. Crispin's day speech at Agincourt, John of Gaunt's dying speech in Richard II . . . jks
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Miles Jackson wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, joanna bujes wrote:
> >
> >> A friend sent me this recently...
> >>
> >> Just in Case Anyone Wondered Why We Still Read
> William Shakespeare:
> >>
> >> Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in
> >> order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic
> fervor, for
> >> patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It
> both
> >
> >Ummm--this is bogus.
> http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm
> >has the scoop. (Evidently we do need to read more
> >Shakespeare: it seemed vaguely plausible from my
> decades-old
> >reading of Julius C., and then I googled it--)
>
> This is very easy after the fact but does "whip the
> citizenry into a
> patriotic fervor" sound like Shakespeare?
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