Monthly Archives: November 2011

How Do You Make Hamlet Even More Tragic?

Posted on Sunday: November 13, 2011 by Michael Hendry

Do what the grad students in Shakespeare Studies at Mary Baldwin did in the performance I saw tonight (directed by Zach Brown): 1. Leave out Fortinbras entirely. 2. Have Horatio ignore Hamlet’s plea at the end of the play, drink … Continue reading →

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This Takes Me Back

Posted on Saturday: November 5, 2011 by Michael Hendry

In a post at The Volokh Conspiracy, Stewart Baker includes a picture of the statue that stands outside the Federal Trade Commission (he credits JoeInSouthernCA): When I worked in D.C. 20+ years ago, I often walked past the statue. My … Continue reading →

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Truer Today, But Already True Then

Posted on Saturday: November 5, 2011 by Michael Hendry

Dicaearchus, that great and prolific Peripatetic, wrote a work called On the Extinction of Human Life. Having assembled the other causes – floods, epidemics, ravages of nature, sudden invasions by hordes of wild beasts, the onset of which he demonstrates … Continue reading →

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