and i did a lot of shakespeare and i... i had no talent for anything else. and... 0k, is there a line from hamlet that particularly, was there something about inhabiting people from the past that particularly appealed to you, resonated with you? i think it happened because i did a lot of the classic roles. and... in that sense, you get to play kings, princes, emperors. and i did a lot of shakespeare and i... right from school days — i played hamlet at school when i was 17, and that kind of... i always thought that i wanted to be an actor. i had no talent for anything else. and... and hamlet confirmed it. 0k, is there a line from hamlet that particularly, today, you even remember? oh, i used to be able to remember all of it. "to be, or not to be, that is the question. "whether �*tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings "and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms "against a sea of troubles and by opposing, end them." that's a bit of... that never occurred. no, no, no, no, no, no. actors are... there was nothing in m

he's like, tell me where in shakespeare a father kills an adult son. and my daughter was reading macbeth at the time, and i was so i saw her reading that. it is only in titus andronicus. and that dude killed like 120 people. i mean, it's is nowhere shakespeare and i called i call priest too because i'm pretty good in the new testament. the old testament a little bit. i was like, all right, know abraham and isaac. he was willing kill his son, didn't go through with it. it doesn't happen. even in greek mythology. if you go back to cronus and zuse and his children, he ate them to keep from being usurped, he spit them up. there is a taboo on a deep level killing an adult child because it's almost like self killing. it's it's rare. and i think that was one of the things, whether we understood it or not, people really wanted to unwind. and i tried to keep my focus throughout the book does everything i'm telling you help explain how a man could kill his wife and son but thank you. i'm just wondering of the title of is for the love of true crime and. following

. >> i'm the executive director of the san francisco shakespeare festival nonprofit organization. in its 43rd year of serving san francisco, we do a lot of arts education programs but we're best known for free shakespeare in the park. we've partnered with san francisco rec and park for all of our years first in golden gate park, then maclaren park and most recently for the first time last summer for shakespeare in the park at sue beerman park. we did the tempest directed by rotimi agaba yaka with prospero being played by wonderful local actor idris afonso ani cooper. >> it was a true success certainly artistically but also audience wise we had people coming for the first time in a long time to downtown and saying things like i forgot how beautiful it was. i forgot how easy it was to get here. i forgot. i forgot, i forgot. and this was a way of reminding them and at the same time we brought our own generator or we hand-carried every last prop and cable to an indoor storage site in a story up generously provided by boston properties, we lent lawn chairs to tourists who don't have th

analogy competent commented on the scriptures, read a little book cicero's letters a few touched shakespeare washed carted, cleaned house and baked reading as is so often the case provoked in her a desire to write, she called this her quote mania for the pen gather in loose sheets of stationery, which she folded and bound with thread and titled her almanacs. she produced a sprawling chronicle of the peaks and valleys of her spiritual life. you can see her in the tiny halo of candlelight scrunched over her writing table, quill in hand, scribbling away, oblivious to the house, beams creaking in the frosty winter night into the almanacs. she poured her inward adventures, filling its pages with her crabbed, adding as many digressions as appear in tristram shandygaff or some other 18th century novel in pale always by a quote something that almost forces my pen along. the result would grow to become a sprawling thousands of and endless unspooling account of her quick mind, the changeable climate of her soul, this poor old memoir is as disconnected and collected in loose leaves, as its author, she

but but might there be a sense of, i'm going to misquote shakespeare that doth protest too much?re they're trying to get it out a little more than might be if they were merely neutral here. >> yeah. and look at the line of defense of the president. no one has said, look, he heroic. he stood up for american interests in pillaging ukraine and getting these, um, taking $500 billion out of a country with a, you know, that is at war and facing a huge reconstruction bill. what they they keep saying he was so manly. he was such a boss as his, um, as his crypto adviser said of him. and i think, you know what? i don't have time for your psychosexual anxieties. you may feel inadequate in your masculinity, and i'm looking for some puffed up person on television to bully a valiant leader fighting for a valiant people. but i think every true american watch that scene and felt shame. >> david frum, appreciate you being with us this morning. and of course, the president addresses congress. you can follow cnn for complete coverage of this address. starts tuesday at 8 p.m. on cnn. kate. >> so sev

he says shakespeare couldn't have been shakespeare without translation because how could you be worldamous if people can't read you? and of course, he's wrote in. elizabeth, elizabeth english at a time when many people still in latin and vernaculars on the rise. right. so too, in order to get to that position, you need translate action. and so it's so interesting in collaboration with a lot of those british merchants and abolitionists and commercial partners that christoph, they understand him and his ministers understand the importance of translation. i should also mention that in that 19 history of haiti which is the first full history of haiti by a haitian essay on the causes of the revolutions in civil wars of haiti, it appears, yes in english in 1823. so posthumously his death, it also appeared dutch translation and others that his writings excerpts appeared in italian, for example. so were getting familiarity with him and reading him and for facilitated of course by these english translations. but i've only found one instance where he used to cry all phrase in the royal gazette

one was the bible, one was shakespeare. you know, art of the sorry. but yeah, but he was also unmoored from and really from institutional faith. right. is the history of his families religious so useful to think of that in that context. just briefly, again ross and i disappointingly are invited to agreement. lincoln is, of course. well you don't think god sent trump to chastise us personally. so there some disagreement. lincoln is, of course, a lincoln is a christ figure, and not just because he's martyred. if you think of those three pillars that we talked about and what he says in the second inaugural address and elsewhere, be not afraid. this is this is a person if if anyone had a great deal to fear from his times or his country. it was abraham lincoln yet he did not conduct his in a spirit of fear and terror. he did not demagogue. he did not say the south is out to get you. he conducted in a way that tried to minimize fear, keep people focused on the larger. i don't have to tell you how important he was as an egalitarian as seeing everyone in the