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It’s a Shakespun.

I keep wanting to refer to Donald Trump’s Florida home as “Mar-Iago.”

But I’m afraid that only theater nerds would get the joke.



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F. Scott Fitzgerald reads from William Shakespeare’s “Othello”

Act I, Scene 3.

 

Eileen Atkins as Emilia in William Shakespeare’s “Othello”

This is an installment in Guardian Culture’s “Shakespeare Solos” series.

 

“The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.”

“To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
“Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
“What cannot be preserved when fortune takes,
“Patience her injury a mock’ry makes.
“The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief,
“He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.”

 

—  from William Shakespeare’s “Othello”

 

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