Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/05/trump-as-shakespearean-tragedy.html
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“We just need somebody with courage to do what they have to do.”
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
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Is this one of those Shakespearean tragedies that ends with the villain consuming a pie comprised of their own wretched offspring? Because I could use a scene like that right about now.
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You know if that’s what was required to keep him out of prison, he’d be asking “what if it’s a hamberder?”
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True, they comeuppance really only works if the villain genuinely cares about their children.
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More George R. R. Martin, if you ask me.
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He divides power between his descendants.
This is fine.
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Out out damn shitstain.
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Something about three witches passing around a single eyeball and the eyeball is “Q” from 8chan
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A Comedy of Terrors, right? With the line, “All’s well that sees the ex-king in jail and thus ends well.”
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…Now does he feel
His secret murders sticking on his hands;
Now, minutely, revolts upbraid his faith-breach;
Those he commands move only in command,
Nothing in love. Now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.
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I don’t believe Shakespearean tragedies and turds mix. Donnie’s life is far too banal to be Shakespearean. Too, Donnie’s story, in a way, is less about him than a compliant, thinking media that allowed him to keep pushing his lies and lie-based persona, thereby empowering him.
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I wish it was a tragedy, but to our misfortune it’s a history.
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Yes to all that, but could we get it in iambic pentameter plz? Thnx!
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I like the end of Marlowe’s Edward II. Trump rotting to death imprisoned in a latrine in the dungeon of the White House before being dragged up to wake the entire town with his screams as he is anally impaled on a red hot spit works for me.
Honestly I don’t think Shakespeare did great drama, he was like the script doctor/gag writer of his day: peppered with quotable lines but I never feel the dramaturgy.
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“Fret not, William, for shalt we not fix it in post?”
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The only “Shakespearen” character Trump resembles is the whinging Night Porter in Macbeth. There’s even a choice reference to urine.
Or Nick Bottom from A Midsummer Night’s Dream? (But that character lacks the malice.)
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Exit stage left, pursued by a bear.
A bear made of shit, on fire, flailing wildly.
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Puck that guy!
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King Leer?
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