A political clash of Shakespearean proportions
Stephen Greenblatt, a professor in Harvard's English department and a Shakespeare expert, visited The Colbert Report last week to discuss parallels between Shakespeare's plays and the presidential (and vice-presidential) candidates. "McCain sounds a lot like Macbeth," observed Colbert, who performed a bit of Shakespeare himself while an undergraduate at Northwestern, "a passionate man prized for his military heroism. Now, sure, Macbeth murdered his friend the king. But back then that just made Macbeth a McMaverick."
Obama, meanwhile, is "an egghead elitist who can't make up his mind. Clearly, Obama is Hamlet. It makes sense. He is haunted by his father, not to mention his father figure. Plus, let us not forget he drove a good woman insane."
Sarah Palin takes the hardest blow -- and it's Greenblatt, author of "Will in the World," an acclaimed biography, who delivers it.
Via The Chicago Blog.
