Tag Archives: Macbeth

How Media Would Spin Macbeth

By Robin Bates | Published: October 18, 2022

In an effort to be fair to both sides, sometimes the media doesn’t call out falsehoods. Satirist Petri imagines a newspaper telling the story of the Macbeths.

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Merrick Garland as Birnam Wood

By Robin Bates | Published: August 11, 2022

Garland, like Birnam Wood, moves inexorably on the authoritarian in charge.

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Was Jan. 6 Just Sound and Fury?

By Robin Bates | Published: June 16, 2021

Is rightwing militancy in America no more than “sound and fury, signifying nothing”? We can but pray that it is.

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Can GOP Wash Its Hands of Capitol Blood?

By Robin Bates | Published: January 11, 2021

While the Macbeths share many traits with Trump and his GOP enablers, they had least have the capacity for self-reflection.

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Trump & Covid: Tragedy or Farce?

By Robin Bates | Published: October 4, 2020

Was the Rose Garden event for Trump’s new SCOTUS pick–which became a Covid superspreader event–a Shakespearean tragedy? How about a farce?

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Pratchett’s Witches to the Rescue

By Robin Bates | Published: June 14, 2020

Terry Prachett’s comic fantasy sometimes describes our political reality as well as sophisticated political science.

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Hand Washing and the Coronavirus

By Robin Bates | Published: March 3, 2020

The coronavirus is leading to a focus on hand washing, which brings Lady Macbeth to mind.

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Check Out the Bard for Halloween

By Robin Bates | Published: October 30, 2019

Shakespeare does a great Halloween. Check out Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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“Et Tu, Brute!”–Betraying the Kurds

By Robin Bates | Published: October 13, 2019

Which Shakespeare play best captures Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds? Julius Caesar, perhaps, for pathos, Othello for the cold-blooded way it was done.

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