I really enjoyed this segment. Continuing the comparisons, we'll see how much like Prince Hal Barack Obama proves to be, and McCain als...

Happy Fool's Day! It's a good day to read or watch a comedy, or better still, a satire. We're always in need of Shakespearean ...

FOOL We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labouring i' the winter. All that follow their noses are led b...

( Cross-posted at The Blue Herald ) (Nigel Hawthorne as Lear.) Shankar Vedantam wrote a great piece for today’s Washington Post titled, “W...

( Cross-posted at The Blue Herald ) Caesar: Antonius! Antony: Caesar. Caesar: Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men an...

I. The Aryan Minstrel Show Such smiling rogues as these Like rats oft bite the holy cords atwain Which are too intrinse t’unloose; smooth ev...