Shakespeare still speaks to us
I was helping my boyfriend read a few passages from Merchant of Venice and found this passage to be just as relevent today as 400 years ago.
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So may the outward shows be least themselves:
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,
But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
What damned error, but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
1 Comments:
Mmmm... yeah, that definitely still applies today!
Shakespeare was brilliant not just as a wordsmith but also as a social commentator. At one point he fell out of favor with the King because of his pointed commentary disguised as entertainment.
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