did anyone want to hear #Shakespeare castigating nativist cruelty against #immigrants and #immigration?
such cruelty is not a new problem, so why not
here delivered by #IanMcKellen from memory
on "The Late Show With #StephenColbert"
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@benroyce The full interview with Sir Ian is here on YouTube, in proper landscape format.
(Prior to delivering the soliloquy, he goes on a tangent involving the tune "Some Enchanted Evening" by Rodgers & Hammerstein, which is also well worth watching.)
@benroyce how nothing ever changes and bigotry remains the same banal evil it always was. Such a good reminder that we could all be the unwanted‘immigrant’ given the right circumstances
historical note:
this play had many authors, constantly revised
historians believe for this speech lines such as
"For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought,
With self same hand, self reasons, and self right,
Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes
Would feed on one another."
and
"but chartered unto them?
What would you think To be thus used?
This is the stranger's case,
And this your mountanish inhumanity"
are directly attributable to Shakespeare's hand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Thomas_More_(play)#Authorship