shakespeare. he was everywhere. my two esteemed colleagues here know a lot more about the presidents of the united states and their relationship to shakespeare than i do. but there again, it's hard to find an american president, well, most of them, that haven't quoted shakespeare, in some way. and even in the last four years, you know, i'm sort of keeping a little unofficial count of commentators describing the trump administration in some shakespearian form. and i'm up to 12 different characters that the president has been compared to. so there's deep link between these old plays and the american experience. i'm in the middle of it now, as i try to pilot a shakespeare, a theater that's famous for doing shakespeare, through this extraordinary crisis. and there's something about, a, the kind of widespread connection to this material. everybody has a little piece of it. it's in the common core. there was some study in the 1990's, as i recall, that's said something like 92% of american students had r

emerson felt the same way about shakespeare, too. shakespeare uses all the scraps the slaves and transforms them into something new. lincoln early on a popular. >> , perhaps rather humorous or whatever but also memorized very long poems of shakespeare and he didn't do this to impress peop people. he did it just because the passages meant something to him and he read a passage a couple times, he had it memorized so in the middle of his presidency, one of the great shakespearean tragedies and that kind of thing, even april 9, 18651 leak was surrendering and he was on a boat going from virginia to washington, he'd been visiting grants and everybody around him was cheering, it's great. i guess today we would have said mission accomplished with a big banner or something but lincoln said i'd rather talk about shakespeare, longfellow. he sent spent several hours discussing poetry from shakespeare and longfellow and others about death. in his mind, the 750,000 americans who died in civil war. as were his mind was. mission accomplished or on

shakespeares' guard and refers -- has plants referred to in shakespeare's plays and poems.r the museum and the california academy of sciences, shakespeares garden was designed in 1928 by the california spring blossom association. flowers and plants played an important part in shakespeares literary masterpieces. here is an enchanting and tranquil garden tucked away along a path behind a charming gate. this garden is the spot to woo your date. appreciate the beauty of its unique setting. the cherry tree, the brick walkways, the enchanting stones, the rustic sundial. chaired the bards'w ro -- share the bard's words. the garden is a gem to share with someone special. pack a picnic, find a bench, enjoy the sunshine and let the whimsical words of william shakespeare float you and your loved one away. this is one of the most popular wedding locations and is available for reservations. shakespeares garden is ada accessible. this park is located at the bottom of a hill. it is a secret garden with an infinite and captivating appeal. carefully tucked away, one block from the bottom of

or even as shakespeare said.we he just slip these lines into his text and assumed i think correctly based on the familiarity, that people had with shakespeare. and that reading people have with the bible, that they would understand. so of course most famously, at the beginning of his famous campaign against ivan douglas for the senate in 1858, is a house a divided against itself cannot stand. now our own senator you can call on that, william seward in new york had something similar, he had said the battle between the slave forces and the anti slave forces represented irresponsible erupts it repressive all conflict. and for that he was branded as one unelectable radical predicting the dissolution of the union. and lincoln emerged as the centrist. and yet he had said the same thing. so what was the difference? he had quoted the book of matthew. william seward, had simply issued a warning. other flashes of brilliance of course would follow, before he became president. most notably. 160 years ago, this february month

unlike most speakers of the day, lincoln never said as the bible says or even as shakespeare said orthe bard said in some of the more pompous references you see from the period, he just slipped these lines into his texts and assumed, i think correctly based on the familiarity that literate people had with shakespeare and that reading people had with the bible, that they would understand. so of course most famously at the beginning of his famous campaign against steven douglas for the senate in 1858, a house divided against itself cannot stand. now, our own senator, we can call him that, william seward in new york said something similar. he said the battle between the slave forces and the anti-slave forces represent an irrepressible conflict. for that he was branded as an unelectable radical who was predicting the dissolution of the union. lincoln emerged as sort of interesting in primary season to talk about where candidates position themselves, he became the centrist. and yet he had said the same thing. what was the difference? he had quoted the book of matthew. william seward simpl

widely read in the bible and in shakespear.inspired him to the old and new testaments as not only scripture but inspiration. he was a voracious reader of newspapers. it fuels the partisanship of the age and the fuelled the partisan part of abraham lincoln. we remember him as a great writer, leader, and ultimately a martyr, he was proud to call himself a pal decision. that meant winning and retaining support and winning from the opposition in the middle. and all of this was not just in person, but in print. he was a great student of the speeches of the american past. he knew webster, he knew hayne, he knew calhoun and clay. he was a stay tuned of american oratory. but he chsz was basically a courtroom lawyer. and his speeches were filled with self deprication. he said my politics are short and sweet like the old woman's dance. if elected i shall be grateful, but if not, it shall be all of the same. he wasn't elected so he didn't use that line again. his first speech as a congressman on the mexican-american war, he wanted to crit

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i have to confess that shakespeare's tragedies, i was not somebody raised on that. i decided to take a shakespeare class in college and reading those tragedies it is the same kind of feeling and how you can capture so much of what is essential of human life and still have a story and a pot interesting things happen and then to be carried forward. so when i think about the great works of american and writers whether faulkner or hemingway or langston hughes and also that part of myself that is constantly dissatisfied and wanting to see what is next and leaving the past behind and always being drawn back to it. so what i think about that have been shaped just as my character has been shaped with that quintessential jack carol lack of road looking west and seeing what is next-door to see like douglas looking north to see what is next but either way to break the change of whatever constraints that we were born into. >> and the organizing structure of the frame it begins with a section called the bet and then not to be sure if it is a bad has yielded dividends and then to

i would rather spend several hours discuss poetry from shakespeare and longfellow and others about death with the 750,000 americans who died in the civil war that's for his mind was. but then to identify with all classes or backgrounds.

i think the same way about shakespeare two. he said shakespeare uses all the scraps of old plays and he transforms them into something new. at lincoln early on was a big fan of popular humor. sometimes rather dirty you are or whatever but he also memorized very long, and he didn't do this people at cocktail parties at listen to my latest homeor something like that . he didn't just because these passages meant something to him once he read a passage a couple of times he had memorized so right in the middle of his presidency he would break out with a long soliloquy by hamlet or by claudius or one of the great shakespearean tragedies that kind of thing. even on april 9, 1865 when lee was surrendering to grant at appomattox and lincoln was on a boat going from virginia to washington he had been visiting grant everybody around him was cheering. it's wonderful, it's great yesterday we would have said mission accomplished and of the manner or something but lincoln said i'd rather talk shakespeare. i'd rather talk about ronald he spent

i have to confess that shakespeare and that shakespeare's tragedies i wasn't somebody who was raised and i decided to take a shakespeare class in college and just reading those tragedies it was that same kind of feeling where i thought how is it that somebody can capture so much of what is essential about a human life and yet still have a story and a plot in interesting things happen so that you are carried forward. i think when i think about the great works of american writers whether falconer or hemingway or langston hughes i also see what i mentioned earlier that part of myself that is constantly dissatisfied and restless and wanting to see what is next and leaving the past behind but always being drawn back to it so i think when i think about my own work i have been shaped just as my character has been shaped by that quintessential jack kerouac open road looking west and seeing what is next and or in the case of somebody like, you know, frederick douglass looking north to see what is next but in either way wanting to break the chains of whatever constraints we were born into and

unlike most speakers of the day, lincoln never say -- said, as the bible says, or even as shakespeare said, or as the bard said in the more pompous references you see in the period. he just slipped these lines into his text and assumed, i think correctly based on familiarity, that they would understand. so of course, most famously at the beginning of his famous campaign against stephen douglas for the senate in 1858, a house divided against itself cannot stand. now, our own senator if we can call him that, william seward in new york, had said something similar. he said the battle between the slave forces and the anti slave forces represented irreplaceable compact -- conflict. for that he was branded as a unelectable radical who was predicting the dissolution of the union. lincoln emerged as a centrist. and yet, he had said the same thing. what was the difference? he had quoted the book of matthew. william seward had simply issued a warning. other flashes of brilliance would of course follow become -- before he became president. most notably 160 years ago this february month, at cooper

shakespeares' guard and refers -- has plants referred to in shakespeare's plays and poems. located near the museum and the california academy of sciences, shakespeares garden was designed in 1928 by the california spring blossom association. flowers and plants played an important part in shakespeares literary masterpieces. here is an enchanting and tranquil garden tucked away along a path behind a charming gate. this garden is the spot to woo your date. appreciate the beauty of its unique setting. the cherry tree, the brick walkways, the enchanting stones, the rustic sundial. chaired the bards'w ro -- share the bard's words. the garden is a gem to share with someone special. pack a picnic, find a bench, enjoy the sunshine and let the whimsical words of william shakespeare float you and your loved one away. this is one of the most popular wedding locations and is available for reservations. shakespeares garden is ada accessible. this park is located at the bottom of a hill. it is a secret garden with an infinite and captivating appeal. carefully tucked away, one block from t

grant and i guess today we want has said mission accomplished what he said rather talk about a shakespeareand longfellow would say what? discuss seeing poetry about death with 50000 americans who died in civil war. it wasn't mission accomplished i am the leader here. it is quite moving where the democracy comes from. all classes and all backgrounds. >> i am excited to hand things off with a conversation about the new book when rabbis bless congress

, more than tickets and shakespeare combined.of course i knew he was funny. , and politically incorrect i had not realized how many of the stories that clung to him like birds are actually true. and it really was true, when a socialist mp approached him, he was coming out of the treasury, i found the very spot in my research where this exchange took place. he was weaving abet and she said, winston, you are drunk. he really did reply with a rudeness that would be unthinkable today. madam, you are ugly and i will be sober in the morning. [laughs] you could not get away with that nowadays. it really is true, because i heard it from no less than the authority of his grandson. a conservative minister, a friend of his, he was caught with a guardsman on a bench at 6:00 on a february morning in hyde park. it happens from time to time in british politics, i think it was the chief whip, brought the news to this unhappy episode to churchill, again in his desk. he replied on hearing this, without looking up from his papers, at 6:00 in the mo

chickens and shakespeare combined.i knew he was funny, and politically incorrect, but i had realized how many of the stories that have clung to him like birds are actually true. it really was true that when betty roddick, a socialist approached him, i found the very spot in live researches when it took place. and he was leaving a bit, she said winston, you are drunk. he really did reply with a rudeness that will be unthinkable today madam you are ugly and i will be so be sober in the morning. you couldn't get away with that in our days. it really is true. because i heard it no less than the authority of his grandson. when a conservative minister, a friend of his was the usual thing he was caught with a guardsman on a bench, at 6:00 on february morning. it happens from time to time in british politics. a nervous underlying brought the news of this unhappy episode to judge or to his desk, he appears he replied without looking up from his papers, at 6:00 in the morning. on a park bench, in february. by god it makes me pro

not shakespeare but more than dickens and shakespeare combined.and i knew he was -- of course i knew he was funny and politically incorrect, but i hadn't realized how many of the stories that have clung to him like burrs are actually true, and it really was true when betty, a socialist mp, approached him -- i think he was coming out of the treasury -- i found the very spot in my research where this exchange took place. he was weaving a bit. and she said, winston, you're drunk. he really did reply with a rudeness that would be unthinkable today, madam, you're ugly, and i will be sober in the morning. you couldn't get away with that nowadays. you couldn't. it really is true because i heard it from no less an authority than his grandson that when a conservative minister, a friend of his, as was the usual thing, he was caught with a guardsman on a bench at 6:00 in the morning in hyde park as happens from time to time in british politics, a nervous underling brought the news of this to churchill, again, in his desk. he replied on hearing this without l

this will help everything from the berkeley symphony in livermore shakespeare festival to the pin balleum in alameda. >> there are all of these unique, creative and just extremely important aspects of our arts and cultural community that we were able to get funding to. i'm so glad that we could support them during this challenging time. >> how much each group received was based on its size. all right. let's turn our attention to the weather which apparently is warming up pretty good. >> it is. we are going into fall-like temperatures, it sounds like. sandhya patel is here. hi. >> hi there. you just gave away my forecast. we'll talk about the spring-like weather, dan and alma. the temperatures will be in the low 70s. today it was a little above average as well. we had a few sprinkles go through. tonight a lot of cloud cover. the moisture associated with it. an atmospheric river is right over the pacific northwest. that's where they've been getting drenched and they've definitely gotten much needed moisture that we could use here but we don't have it. we may see a couple of springs in th

shakespeare explores the concepts of love power and jealousy. turning to anthropologists the earliest expressions of human creativity date back some 40000 years. modern homo sapiens developed a new kind of self-awareness and began to find ways to project thought and feeling on to the world around them. i think our artistic and creative works are an attempt to actually sober scientific problem which is the whole problem of consciousness that i can't know what it feels like to be you and you can't know what it feels like to be me but our creativity is somehow our op best way of trying to share that world in our art is almost the best m.r.i. scanner to see what it is like to be another human being. hey siri how can i help you. isn't the sunrise magical summarizes the moment when the limb of the sun appears on the horizon in the morning the turn can also refer to the entire process of the solar disk crossing the horizon. rembrandt was renowned for his ability to portray deep human feelings and challenge the conventions of the self portrait. is it po

. $900,000 iunis bitsun thil helve erke shakespeare festival to the pin ball museum in alameda. >> thered cultural community that we were able to get funding to. i'm so glad that we could support them during this challenging time. >> how much each group received was based on its size. all right. let's turn our attention to the weather which apparently is warming up pretty good. >> it is. we are going into fall-like temperatures, it sounds like. sandhya patel is here. hi. >> hi there. you just gave away my forecast. we'll talk about the spring-like weather, dan and alma. the temperatures will be in the low 70s. today it was a little above average as well. we had a few sprinkles go through. tonight a lot of cloud cover. the moisture associated with it. an atmospheric river is right over the pacific northwest. that's where they've been getting drenched and they've definitely gotten much needed moisture that weou use hereprin in the north bay and that's it. it is kicking up the surf. the swells, 17 footers around half moon bay, monterey bay. large break letters continue. so high surf advisor

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peacock i think the last stumbling block was they had to pry screech out of his contract at the royal shakespeare theatre but it's all speed ahead now. also believe it or not just started. this is amazing movie colonel harlan center's great k.f.c. lifetime mini movie you know him well mariel lopez. i'm doing well thank you so much for for having me how you doing. good you are workin your ass and it seems to me that you are a man in full did big run from gig to gig or as a catch up dude or is this your time no i mean i feel very blessed dennis especially being a former child actor you hear all these horror stories of how most of these kids aren't able to sort of make that transition in and as my dad would say i haven't had to get a real job yet. so i you know i love what i'm doing and ironically during this whole pandemic this is been probably one of the busiest years might lie we were the 1st production according to sag for the look christmas movie has shot when we did it over and of anna and then we were 1st show.

shakespeare explores the concepts of love power and jealousy. according to anthropologists the earliest expressions of human creativity date back some 40000 years. modern homo sapiens developed a new kind of self-awareness and began to find ways to project thought and feeling onto the world around them. and i think our artistic and creative works are an attempt to actually sober scientific problem which is the whole problem of consciousness that i can't know what it feels like to be you and you can't know what it feels like to be me but our creativity is somehow our op best way of trying to share that world in our art is almost the best f. m.r.i. scanner to see what it is like to be another human being. hey siri how can i help you. isn't the sunrise magical sunrise is the moment when the upper limit of the sun appears from the horizon in the morning the turn can also refer to the entire process of the solar disk crossing the horizon. rembrandt was renowned for his ability to portray deep human feelings and challenge the conventions of the self p

programme of learning at undergraduate level including a chronological spawn of english literature from shakespeare to burn a dean everest alongside him it's creature of an author driven modules lester university graduate poet ruby waterman believes students need to have access to the full range of literature and history of their country. a.c.t writes is he still relevant and yes he's the father of english mixture in my with the fact that he wrote a long time ago to make him irrelevant may still an inspiration to write as now there are blockbuster adaptations a barrel for another med able to extract who want the stuff and if you think many rich tunes just sort of the gods they are in god obsessed with those talking jibberish and you just study my what you missing me don't know what you're talking about is this you know it's not elites a state it's history it's our history and how can they way you are how can you know way of caring if you don't worry being a main concern is. the university has a good reputation rightly say it isn't one of the very early inverse d's and it mainly attracts state schoo

thousands of kilometers away stephanie decker al-jazeera in the province of edgy media it was william shakespeare who wrote all the world's a stage with countless there's his around the world still shalt some before was a taking that famous phrase even literally than before and the gallacher ports from miami. just like every city across the world miami is feeling the impact of the code 19 pandemic businesses normally bustling with activity now stand empty the inevitable impact of the deadly virus that i'll take note of the playwright and director michel housman see something else but in the crisis has been an opportunity to revive the arts in an unusual way we know that people are hungry to experience theater they're hungry to experience communion and so you know this idea what a way to do all that in a safe way the concept to turn vacant shop windows into 7 tiny stages is proved to be a big success or dns members socially distance wear masks and listen to each 10 minute play using headsets i thought it get tickets for those who work in the theater it's a chance to tread the boards in a unique wa

your lives were misguided that it actually cost harm and you had if you just say it out loud that shakespeare and authentically strong person do that how was it like for you. you know it's on that thank you very much you know i didn't realize what the outcome would be when i changed my mind but i like the truth and i had watched my dad dive type 2 diabetes and as a medical doctor you know i would have sort of like to help him but i couldn't because i was raised in the paradigm which holds that diabetes is an irreversible disease it's progressive so what i saw happening in my father that i expected to happen when i didn't have time to dadi cheese and then by chaunce came across a book which convinced me that the low carbohydrate diet was the solution to diabetes and then i tried it and i reduced my dive deep.

in henry v, that great beach that shakespeare put in the mouth of carry the fifth, he speaks of thosehat remember of what happened on st. christian's day. we often fail to notice this key line. this story, shall a good man teaches son. and chris been crispy in should never go on from the state to the ends of the world, but we in it should be remembered. notes that, the good man will teach his son, the good teach in -- the parent will teach their children. if we begin there, then the work of renewal, i think, will spread outwards peoples in upon. >> pretty. there is policy issues at stake here. we talked about it on this panel. there are two lines of approach that have been on both sides of the aisle in politics. one line is, centralized standards, and the other line is decentralized the administration of the schools and the greatest example of that, the most successful, is charters. robert jackson, why are those better, and what is the future for them? >> i believe that the benefit of charter schools is that a community orients around a common understanding of the education they which

lives were misguided that it actually cost harm and you had of if you just say it out loud that shakespeare and authentically strong person do that how was it like for you. yeah son i thank you very much you know i didn't realize what the outcome would be when i changed my mind but i like the truth and i had watched my dad dive type 2 diabetes and as a medical doctor you know i would have sort of like to help him but i couldn't because i was raised in the paradigm which holds that diabetes is an irreversible disease it's progressive so what i saw happening in my father that i expected to happen when i didn't have time to dobbie cheese and then by chaunce came across a book which convinced me that the low carb diet was the solution to diabetes and then i tried it and i reduced my diabetes and i knew i had one child i had 2 choices i'd like to have. and then if that was the case i'd written this book you know of running which has been read by millions around the world and that book says you miss carbohydrate load and i knew that if people followed that advice that they would get type 2 diabet

on the rest of the world actually reminded me of shakespeare's quote and have a look you know in hamlet the lady she does protest this too much material is a spouting map and democracy and open markets and fairness vat is a question about china so i think it will remain to be seen what is very important in all this is does president biden have the ability to rally all of the previous allies of the u.s. will his long term relationships and his stance on the world stage serve to benefit the u.s. and that is what will determine whether or not we can to a certain degree the u.s. will be able to rein in and china in the future and that's what's unclear and we're not so sure they will be able to send china has been kind of and i quote yes i couldn't just quote unquote the congressman from florida and he the congressman has said that he believes that we're looking to inwardly a former congressman brought in he said back us he said if we look too inwardly. remain with an inward look in terms of coping with a pandemic the rest of the world won't wait for us the issue salutes global cooperation i

shakespeare explores the concepts of love power and jealousy. turning to anthropologists the earliest expressions of human creativity date back some 40000 years. modern homo sapiens developed a new kind of self-awareness and began to find ways to project thought and feeling onto the world around them. and i think our artistic and creative works are an attempt to actually sober scientific problem which is the whole problem of consciousness that i can't know what it feels like to be you and you can't know what it feels like to be me but our creativity is somehow our op best way of trying to share that world in our art is almost the best m.r.i. scanner to see what it is like to be another human being. hey siri how can i help you isn't the sunrise magical summarizes the moment when the upper limb of the sun on the horizon in the morning the turn can also refer to the entire process of the solar disk crossing the horizon. rembrandt was renowned for his ability to portray deep human feelings and challenge the conventions of the self portrait. is it po

peacock i think the last stumbling block was they had to pry screech out of his contract at the royal shakespeare theatre but it's all speed ahead now and also believe it or not just started. this is amazing the colonel harlan center's great k.f.c. lifetime mini movie you know him well mariel lopez. i'm doing well thank you so much for for having me how you doing. good you are workin your ass. it seems to me that you are a man in for the big run from gig to gig or as a catch up dude or is this your time no i mean i feel very blessed dennis especially being a former child actor you hear all these horror stories of how most of these kids aren't able to sort of make that transition and as my dad would say i haven't had to get a real job yet. so i you know i love what i'm doing and ironically during this whole pandemic this is been probably one of the busiest years my life we were the 1st production according to sag for the christmas movie has shot when we did it over and anna and then we were the 1st show back on the lot and i was shot for like a week from my house with access hollywood actually do

performers took to social media actor patrick stewart he cited shakespeare sonnets soon. the pianist live it live. but that theater is an opera house just like those here in new york stream the performances around the world. substitute for found new safer locations to party like this king on a berlin church rooftop. musicians found a way to drezner symphonic orchestra performed on the roof of an apartment. early in the held picnics performances with socially distance blankets and the music through headphones. there were even super exclusive concerts with a single musician and an audience 6 of one. didn't stop the salzburg festival which went ahead as planned albeit with fewer people social distancing and new safety measures. this would have been ashamed of our timidness had we cancelled the festival this year because our festival was founded in much more difficult times shortly after the 1st world war when there was great hunger and need. grown of the berlin state opera held open their concerts for free. i can't wait to share this great music again. good streaming is quit

i was reminded by a moment in richard iii by shakespeare where someone says "where is comfort"? and someone responds, "comfort is in heaven." saint augustine says we live in a city of -- i am rolling up my sleeves now and i am going to get something done. >> there were an extraordinary moment on the day of the inauguration that i want to play. i happen to be anchoring at the moment the then president's plane took off and left washington, d.c. and, it was the moment of transition really from the past to the present. i just wanted to hear the sound which happens to be a song playing that the president plays at rallies. i want to play that moment and talk about it. let's just watch in silent as air force one takes off, the trump's family leaves washington. ♪ >> there you go. and inside the church, biden's family, harris' family. a new beginning. that was it. it was so startling to me seeing that juxtaposition. it is autocrats and listening to the sound track of their own design. people subscribe to the idea that we are intelligent enough to govern ourselves. this is the great by pr