very pleased to have him back to talk about the complexity, the allenges and the genius of william shakespeare, all part of our series "why shakespeare?" welcome back. >> lovely be here. >> rose: since you were here you've announced you ear leaving. >> yup. it will be ten yearsext year and, of course, i thought about whether to go for a third term as it were and i felt like i would spend time in a rehearsal roomith no queue behind the door. and it's time to hand it over to someone else. there's a great bunch of brit irk directors comin through. >> rose: well, there's a list of people, kenneth branagh and michael grandage. there a good people willing to step in. >> there are good people, colleagues of mine, there's a terrific field and somereally good women dirtors as well. >> rose: when you look back there's a chance for you to sort of say this is what i intend to do and this is what i did. >> i wanted to reserve collaborative art form, the ensemble. >> that was principle, the idea that we will have a group of actors. >> it was partly idealism, partly wanting to experiment with artistic commun

. >> tell he how someone named william shakespeare to could that and no one has been able to do at well as that. what you're asking about are the simple but profound questions and they are pro fund. it seems such a delicious disprik irony so that shakespeare offers illumination on every part of the human condition resists analysis of himself as a character. we might have, i think, 23 single pieces of evidence about him in the public record office. they do not constitute a biography. as a result, the flash between scholars, the outrage that someone who we don't even know had a grammar school education, don't even know where the eridition and scholarship records in the plays could have come from. where did he get the books? the mystery about around shakespeare is one of the most important things around him. it means you keep asking -- >> youever zeped the idea he was someone else. >> no, i have not. i'm a working class irish boy so the fact that somebody who, through power of the imagination and through awe -- around 1800, with the growth of the row unanimoustic movement, the idea that gr

. >> william shakespeare. >> oh, please. [laughter] >> wait a minute. >> that was too easy. >> that's the point. the greatest geniuses continued to evolve. those people have so much. there's so much that they have to get taken to 40 more masterpieces if they only had the time. >> there were to come one in a generation. >> if that. one in a century. that's the point. the greatest geniuses i think continue to evolve. other people have their thing to do, and it's wonderful. and then they have done it. either fate steps in order be slightly eroded. as wonderful a writer as joseph from his last book is terrible. that's the way it is. >> we talked a little bit about this sort of unconscious creativeness with writers, and actually scientists as well, where it percolates somewhere in the unconscious. and sometimes it pops out on form. it can take years and years, and meanwhile, if you are an established writer you feel a compulsion to write without that. >> because it's what you do. the thing is, given life our breath, we keep going

. >> william shakespeare. >> oh, please. [laughter] >> wait a minute. >> that was too easy. >> that's the point. the greatest geniuses continue to evolve. and those people have so much -- [inaudible] is another in my world. they have so much to give, they could do 40 more masterpieces if they had more time. >> there were two, one in a generation. >> if that. >> if that. >> one in a century. that's the point. the greatest geniuses, i think, continue to evolve. and other people have their thing to do, and it's wonderful. and then they've done it. and either fate steps in, or they erode. look at -- as wonderful a writer as joseph conrad, his last books are terrible. that's the way it is. >> but we talked a little bit about this sort of unconscious creativeness with writers and, actually, scientists as well where it percolates somewhere in the unconscious, and sometimes it pops out unformed. and it can take years and years, and meanwhile if you are an established writer, you feel a compulsion to write without that. >> because it

william shakespeare said in such business action is eloquence. mr. speaker, we have before us a measure that is designed to do one thing and one thing only and that is to focus on getting our economy growing and generating job opportunities for the american people. the american people are hurting. we know that. there are people across this country hurting. as my friends have just outlined, there are individuals who have suffered greatly. and it is absolutely imperative that we do everything we can to ensure that they have job opportunities and that those who are unable to find job opportunities have the assistance that they and their families need to proceed, especially during this time of year. any action that my colleagues are proposing on the other side will simply delay our effort that will ensure that we extend the payroll tax holiday for an additional year, and it will prevent us, it will prevent us from providing those benefits to people who are unable to find work today. so, mr. speaker, i will be discussing the underlying legislation when we

one of your favorite is king lear by william shakespeare. how much time be spent reading?t is my job. some people ask how do you read so many books? they have to to do their jobs. that is what i do. i spend a lot of time reading. i watch some political shows and support shows but i don't watch too much in the realm of series. i used to be a movie critic. i don't go to too many movies anymore. i spend a lot of time reading. i was reading king lear for one of the pleasures of doing this. you get to meet people you would otherwise meet so i got to do a panel discussion in association with a presentation of king lear a public theater in new york hosted by an hathaway the great star and actress and miller one who is a great actor famous for being a clown. and so they asked me to be on a panel talking about king lear stalin went back and reread it. depressing and great and got to meet and hathaway and people like that. >> host: there is one general fema will go through. why are there no conservative columnists at the new york times? another one says are you a centrist? another e

so i began as we were debating the point of order by raising the famous quote of william shakespeare and i'll close with that, mr. speaker. in such business action is eloquence. with that i yield back the balance of my time. i move the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on ordering the previous question on the resolution. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, on that i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts has requested the yeas and nays. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. pursuant cho clause 8 and clause 9 of rule 20, this 15-minute vote on ordering the previous question will be followed by five-minute votes on adoption of house resolution 491, if ordered, and on motions to suspend the rules with regard to h.r. 3246, if ordered. and s. 384, if ordered. this first vote will be a 15-minute v

like everything important in life, william shakespeare and the streets this -- illustrates this perfectlyllow, who was the commander of the military of venice is summoned by the duke and senators. he is summoned to defend an attack. he needs to know how big an attack turkey launched in order to size his own forces. in the 16th century situation room of venice, the first intelligence briefers declares that turkey has lost -- has launched 107 ships. mind you, it is not around 110. it is not more than 100. 107 ships. it sounds like he really knows what he is talking about, doesn't it? until the next briefer comes he has a very clear reports that turkey has launched 140 ships. a fellow start to look from the room and says, how do i know what is right around here? until a center comes in and he has a confirmed report -- a senator comes in handy as the confirmed reports that the turks have launched 200 ships. as mcvet says in another context, "-- as macbeth says in another context, confusion has made his masterpiece. and yet, another intelligence officer rushes in directly from the front tellin

. >> host: why in 2011 are we still reading william shakespeare?t him and his works? >> guest: well, you know, science changes but we don't change particularly. and so we -- we don't make too much moral progress. i think we do make some. but some of the problems are still eternal problems about pride, about. >> ed -- about greed, about avarice and one of the famous scenes in king lear, the grandfather the king, or father -- knows he's about to die and he's giving away his kingdom and he wants his daughters to praise him to his face that you are the greatest, all my love is for you. i have no devotion to anybody but you but one of his daughters says, well, i owe what i owe you. you're my father but i'm not going to make up these flowery words and say i owe you all my love because when i get married i'll have some love for my husband and she refs to compromise her integrity just to pay homage to a guy whose ego is apparently out of control. and he cuts her off and is rude to her. and that was written hundreds of years ago but the lessons about honest