ICE recruitment is, in many ways, proving a disaster, bringing to mind Falstaff’s recruiting methods in “Henry IV, Part II.”
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ICE Agents and Falstaff’s Army
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Trump as Chaucer’s Pardoner
Think of Trump as Chaucer’s Pardoner, a conman who thinks he can trick people he’s revealed his tricks to.
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Cuomo Channels Shakespeare’s Henry V
Andrew Cuomo’s recent speech to the National Guard has echoes of Henry V’s St. Crispin’s Day speech on the eve of Agincourt.
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