Shakespeare and Politics
Published by Bob Foster
Ken Adelman, VP of Movers and Shakespeares, recently posted an article on Huffington Post using quotations from Shakespeare to emphasize his points. They were quite apropos, so I thought I would include a few of them here.
Regarding the unreadable size of the healthcare reform bill, with amendments, Ken had this to say: “Both the legislation and its process reflect Macbeth’s quip: ‘Confusion hath made his masterpiece.’” Apparently this is truer than we imagined, since I just read that the insurance companies have already found a loophole where they won’t have to insure children with pre-existing conditions until 2014, instead of September 2010.
Ken (and the Bard) goes on to say, “…the bill itself became a collection of ‘paper bullets of the mind,’ as Benedict says in Much Ado About Nothing.”
The media filled the airwaves with political chatter while the bill was in Congress, and even after passage, such that many of us became inured to what was being said. These words seem to express what we were feeling: “Zounds! We were never so bethumped with words” (King John).
The many incendiary TV and talk radio shows have left me, and many other independents, feeling: “You cram these words into mine ears, against the stomach of my senses” (The Tempest).
Thanks to Ken Adelman, of Movers and Shakespeares, for these pithy quotations.
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