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That's not good. But there's still one hope left. Though his Hamlet act is beginning to wear thin, in January Mario Cuomo is scheduled to be the sole questioner at a debate among Republican hopefuls in Iowa. Very interesting. That's one questioner who just may be the answer the Democrats are looking...
Bloom, in his third of six Charles Eliot Norton lectures, said that Shakespeare portrayed characters like Hamlet, Lear and Falstaff so realistically that he forever altered the expectations of readers and play audiences...
...tragic hero in Shakespeare, at its best in Hamlet, is a representation so original that conceptually he contains us and has fashioned our psychology of motives ever since," he said...
...result of Shakespeare's brilliant representation of characters is that many of the playwright's creations are fully implanted in modern notions, including the ideal of the Freudian parental authority in Lear, the disinterested seer and truth-finder in Hamlet, and the totally free man or superego in Falstaff...
...until 1971, was widely venerated for having been a progressive on civil rights and an opponent of the Viet Nam War. He was touted as a possible vice-presidential candidate in 1956 and 1960. When his father made the case for running, young Gore played a combination of Hamlet and devil's advocate, dwelling on the negatives. His mother Pauline moderated. "Dammit," said her husband afterward, "I think he's talked himself out of it." But his son telephoned the next day: "Dad, it's go." Recalls Albert Sr.: "I knocked a hole in the roof with a Comanche yell...