and boyd stevens had brought with him two mannequins which he kept back stage -- they weren't in the courtroom. -- and he was prepared to testify that they were deliberate and vial lent and vicious acts. however, before he had a chance to do that, tommy norman completed his examination of him. doug schmidt, very happy that boyd stevens had not been invited to give his opinion, didn't even cross examine him. because the delves had con -- defense had conceded from the beginning, the obvious, dan white killed these two guys. he confessed on tape. there was no question he killed them. rather, the defense attorneys put to the jury a different set of questions. their questions were, why? why had a good man like dan white, a man who had never -- as far as anyone knows, committed a crime before in his life -- do this heinous thing? and how must he be punished? because the defense took the position he had to be punished. they said, this is not murder. this is a less serious crime, and they had a mantra which they repeated again and again and again during the trial. good people, fine people, w

they include shakespeare scholar steven greenblatt and harold bloom, also the director of the royal shakespeare coany, michael boyd. we then conclude our evening looking at "hamlet." sir john gielgud, whose portrayals were considered among the finest, described the part as summing up the process of living. helping us understand the play will be oskar eustis and steven greenblatt. with that, i'd like to welcome you to the first episode in our charlie rose shakespeare series we call "why shakespee? " iope you enjoy the conversation. >> good night. good night. parting is such sweet sorrow. if you say good night, then bit morrow. >> when somebody says to you "who was shakespeare" what do you say? >> he was the greatest writer in the history of the english language. he was the person who made the theater democratic andhat's what made him the greatest writer because you look at shakespeare... you look at him in context and what he did was write for an audience and he had to simultaneously please illiterate ground lings, plse cambridge educated intellectuals please the aristocracy all at the same moment because the tudor