he could get away with a few things like "mcbeth." "mcbeth" is clearly about king james. it's about the trouble that comes from assassinating a legitimate ruler. catholics had just tried to assassinate king james by blowing up parliament, and james was scottish. shakespeare writes this scottish play in which james' side of the family, everybody looks good and you're taught not to assassinate the king. that one was pretty easy to see who he was talking about, but it was pretty safe. with the others, it was -- he had to do it much more carefully. some of his contemporaries were jailed or killed because of plays they wrote. kid marlow. and by the way, i'll conclude with this. that's one of the reasons why it's very hard to tell shakespeare's political idealogy. i argue that he teaches a lot about political leadership, but you can't really tell about his political idealogy. i mean, as far as i can figure it out, and this is a deep disappointment to me, but it may come as helpful to my friend paul stimers. as far as i could tell, shakespeare was no liberal, but he was more a c

evoking a scene from mcbeth in which the ghost of the murdered person appears to lady mcbeth, but is invisible to the others who are sitting with them at a banquet table. senator hain asked, has the gentleman's tempered fancy been

mcbeth and lady mcbeth. by identifying with those who saw the ghost, webster argued, hain had slipped up. he had unintentionally revealed his own sinister motives. after reciting several lines from the play, webster asked, those who murdered vanquo, what did they win by it? substantial good, permanent power or disappointment rather and mortification, dust and ashes, the common fate of vaulting ambition over leaping itself? then he said, i need pursue the illusion no further. there are many other examples. congressman william jennings bryant began a speech by directing the house clerk to read a passage from "merchant of venice." a manager of president johnson's senate impeachment trial compared his cabinet members to pellonius in hamlet. by my count, between 1833 and 1873, there were 159 references during congressional debate, to shakespeare himself or to the plays, hamlet, mcbeth, othello and king lear. let me add a fun fact. one of the foremost shakespeare scholars war julian verplank of new york, chairman

and during one of those breaks, shakespeare not able to act, wrote three plays, anthony cleopatra, mcbethn and so that to be an inspiration. and, during the war, theatres closed, particularly in london, during the blitz. but we spring back. the conviction of the conviction 01:14 people in the charlie abdo trial. —— charlie hebdo much more on our website and twitter feed. thank you very much. hello there. on wednesday, we saw a pretty deep area of low pressure sweep up from the south to bring rain and gales, particularly to western areas. today, though, it's looking a bit quieter. we're in between weather systems, so we should see a good deal of sunshine around. it'll stay quite breezy too, though, not quite as windy as it has been. so that's wednesday's low pushing away to the north of the uk. this feature will come in during thursday night. and in between, we've got a good slice of drier weather. there'll be a few showers around this morning, mind you, across southern and western areas. plenty of sunshine across eastern scotland, central and eastern england — areas here staying dry all d