Mnema of things past…

Memory and remembrance, what parts do they play in Shakespeare?

A veteran of the recent Iraq or Afghani wars may return home with prologues and speeches of Henry the Fifth at his rapping beck and call and recall. Hell one soldier I know of set up OSS while on his tour of duty.

is this because Rumsfeld did a workshop on Corporate Shakespeare? President Bush yes double-ya, who professed to having Sh on his nightstand is fashioning himself (or being fashioned like henry the sixth) as afore-mentioned, Harry 5.

So does that make Presidential candidate McCain and his choice for VP Sarah Palin into Prospero and Miranda? Or King Lear and his daughter Regan? Macbeth and Lady Macbeth?

An afterthought, maybe she’s Lady MacDuff and McCain is old Duncan. Or how about Leontes and Hermione? Exit ideas, pursued by a bear.

None of these so far fits the profile of Sarah Palin, that hitherto unknown Alaskan Mom and Huntress and Republican protector of Alaskan Oil interests. Yup Yup, we can agree on that, you betcha.

maybe she’s like Nursie, in Romeo and Julyut (disyllabic not trisyllabic). perhaps his Titus has met her Tamora? Anyone for pie? Or is it a clear case of Coriolanus and Volumnia, the wounded psyche looking to Mom for some direction?

A Comedy of Errors? She, Aemilia the abbess tucked away, while her twin boys search for each other with their idiot-savant twin Dromios beside them.

Forget about it. Why can’t Obama drop Biden and take Sarah on his ticket? then we’d have the View in the Whitehouse. Reality TV don’t get much better than that.

The dissemination of sh news in the online community is starting to accept we have a myriad of shakespeares. How this happened i easily blame on theory. (as payback for sitting through a zillion stultifying jargonised papers).

The text itself means nothing anymore. Schoolkids, i love this bit, don’t even have time to engage with the text itself, but do have to fit that text into a theory about that text.

So the situation with Shakespeare is that it means whatever you interpret it to mean. The text is yours to respond to as you like it.

Hey maybe it’s the banished Duke in the Forest of Arden who sees a very capable looking Audrey?!?

Let’s get some linkage happening here.