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Saturday, July 31, 2004
George II vs. Henry VLast week's stage review, about trendy parallels between George W. and Shakespeare's most popular prince (Harry, who becomes Henry V) struck a chord with Scott Newstrom, an assistant professor of English who e-mailed me a link to his detailed piece about why the parallel flunks. "Shakespeare always has been, and will continue to be, misread and misquoted in support of any and every position," he writes. True, true.
Proof? My piece picks on left-leaning directors for bashing the president with the parallel; Newstrom picks on right-leaning spinmasters for promoting it.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
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