The bard would not have pondered whether to Brexit or not to Brexit,His plays showed his esteem for Europe and a dislike of rampant nationalismMethinks I am a prophet recent-inspired.
And do foretell that Boris will soon seek
A barricade from which to bellow out
huge chunks of Shakespeare’s Henry to his troops
Beneath the Harfleur walls. And what his aim?
To claim the Bard for Brexit this weekend,[br]Who sadly shuffled off this mortal coil
Four hundred years ago on Saturday.
And all those enraged, or loyal Brexiteers,
Who’ve waited for this moment all their life,
Will summon up the blood and happily
Disguise unprejudiced nature with hard-favoured rage.
But they’d be unsuitable, and unutterably unsuitable.
I have not a shadow of a doubt that William Shakespeare would have voted to remain. Even though he may never have stepped outside this country,he was no parochial puny Englander. His parish was the whole of Europe and he cast his plays across the continent. His great and complex esteem stories were set in unprejudiced Verona, Messina, and Vienna,Roussillon, Navarre, and Sicily,Bohemia, Venice, or Padua,Ephesus and Troy.
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Source: theguardian.com