Shakespeare on immigrants

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A Shakespeare manuscript has now become digitised, showing his draft of a speech in support of refugees

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/15/william-shakespeare-handwritten-plea-for-refugees-online-sir-thomas-more-script-play-british-library-exhibition

The powerful scene, featuring More challenging anti-immigration rioters in London, was written at a time when there were heightened tensions over the number of French Protestants (Huguenots) seeking asylum in the capital.

“It is a really stirring piece of rhetoric,” said the library’s curator, Zoe Wilcox. “At its heart it is really about empathy. More is calling on the crowds to empathise with the immigrants or strangers as they are called in the text. He is asking them to imagine what it would be like if they went to Europe, if they went to Spain or Portugal, they would then be strangers. He is pleading with them against what he calls their ‘mountainous inhumanity’.

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Shakespeare is only used as a source of policy guidance by the Labour Party. IIRC the Conservatives tend to make heavy use of The Iron Lady, while the Liberal Democrats prefer astrology.

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Shakespeare is only used as a source of policy guidance by the Labour Party. IIRC the Conservatives tend to make heavy use of The Iron Lady, while the Liberal Democrats prefer astrology.

To be, or not to be in the EU seems to have confused you recently vis-à-vis the Conservative Party.

[mrswdk]

Okay Kevin.

[Symmetry]

Okay Kevin.

British politics addles you.

QED

[mrswdk]

in this case there is no set policy

The government's official position is that the UK should remain inside the EU

Dude, I can only say that there isn't a government policy on this again

New guidance issued to civil servants and special advisers today states that “official departmental papers” cannot be used to argue against the official government position that Britain should Remain in the EU.

Who constitutes the British Government, then?

British politics addles who?

[Symmetry]

in this case there is no set policy

The government's official position is that the UK should remain inside the EU

Dude, I can only say that there isn't a government policy on this again

New guidance issued to civil servants and special advisers today states that “official departmental papers” cannot be used to argue against the official government position that Britain should Remain in the EU.

Who constitutes the British Government, then?

British politics addles who?

"Whom"

The answer is still you.

[mrswdk]

Haha. No you are the doo doo head! Zing!

[Symmetry]

Haha. No you are the doo doo head! Zing!

Nothing left in the bag, eh?

[mrswdk]

lol. Enters discussion to share completely inaccurate 'facts', is corrected, instead of admitting mistake simply repeats 'I am right and you are wrong' ad nauseum then claims victory.

Symmetry aka Bill O'Reilly

[mrswdk]

What exactly did your previous position in 'academia' involve? Were you one of those professors of Harry Potter who lost their job after the Coalition government scrapped funding for pointless undergraduate degrees?

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What exactly did your previous position in 'academia' involve? Were you one of those professors of Harry Potter who lost their job after the Coalition government scrapped funding for pointless undergraduate degrees?

Mostly 16th and 17th century manuscript stuff. No Harry Potter, I'm afraid, so it would likely bore you.

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Actually, no, wait, I did do a paper on John Dee a while ago. He's considered one of the models for Prospero, and he was an alchemist associated with the Philosopher's Stone.

So hey- a nice tie back in to the thread.