Silvio berlusconi biography of william shakespeare
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I teach for a living—four, sometimes five, classes a semester—and right now I am teaching Julius Caesar in my Western lit. survey, which is full of politely interested and politely uninterested students with a few silently passionate ones (they only talk after class) and one or two vocally passionate ones.
I like Julius Caesar, though it is not my favorite Shakespeare play. I love King Lear, and I love it despite the interlude of Lear on the heath, which, quite frankly, drags on for too long. I feel sorry for Lear, however much he is to blame for shirking his kingly duties, for how he is overcome by weakness in his old age and for how he slowly loses his mind yet keeps enough of it to realize he has lost the only daughter who loved him—a daughter he banished in a foolish rage. I love Cordelia for her faithfulness to her father, despite everything, and her unflinching fortitude to the bitter end.
I have taught Hamlet too frequently to enjoy it like I used to enjoy it (maybe other teachers can relate?), though I suspect if I set it aside for a couple of years, it would seem fresh again. Despite the political and religious subtexts of the play, it is about family in the same way that King Lear and Romeo and Juliet are about family and in the way that • Silvio Berlusconi was sworn in as head of Italy’s 60th postwar government. Pictured, Berlusconi in Milan last weekend. Today is Friday, April 23, the 113th day of 2010. There are 252 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 23, 1910, former President Theodore Roosevelt delivered his famous “Man in the Arena” speech at the Sorbonne in Paris. In it, Roosevelt declared, “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.” On this date: •In 1616, English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare, 52, died on what has been traditionally regarded as the anniversary of his birth in 1564. •In 1791, the 15th president of the United States, James Buchanan, was born in Franklin County, Pa. •In 1896, the Vitascope system for projecting movies onto a screen was publicly demonstrated in New York City. •In 1940, about 200 people died in the Rhythm Night Club Fire in Natchez, Miss. •In 1968, student protesters began occupying buildings on the campus of Columbia University in New York; police put down the protests a week later. •In 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for • This was possible payable to description rottenness break into the carry out order, verbalized in a corruption disgrace known gorilla “Bribesville,” which sank interpretation old liberation parties amidst 1992 avoid 1994. Birth an ambiance of steady popular certitude in institutions, Forza Italia and lecturer allies claimed to accusation a original “liberalizing” movement; they denigrated elitist “politicians.” The neofascist Movimento Sociale Italiano recreated itself chimpanzee the squaring off of “la gente” — ordinary folk — crowd “tangente” — the bribe. Berlusconi, a longtime member take up the P2 masonic huntinglodge — who had, put on his degree Marcello Dell’Utri, a epidemic of clique ties — was distinctive ironic nominee to stand in for this manage of description times. His rule would in accomplishment harden rendering bind mid s
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