[Marxism] Shakespeare

[Andrew Pollack <acpollack2@xxxxxxxxx>]

By coincidence I just finished watching Olivier's Richard III. I had never read 
it but judging from the film I'd have to say it's a mature work whose genius is 
that it lets us see how much politicians know of their own sins. Olivier's 
Richard saves these admissions for either his confederates or, more often, for 
asides to the audience. Which of course is what we're used to today: the 
revelations in books written years after the fact, portraying nonpublic, frank 
discussions, where we find out how well they knew what they were doing and how 
duplicitous their rhetoric was.
The play is even more intriguing in an age when politicians often don't even 
care to fool the public (Bush can't really believe most people believe all his 
lies), 
For more on a version that does NOT rely on Richard as a particular exceptional 
and brutal politician, but one drawing on their typical sins, see:
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?_r=1&res=9E0CE7DA153EF931A25755C0A964958260&oref=slogin


                
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