So Angelo has sentenced Claudio to death because Claudio’s fiancé is pregnant (immorality), and Isabella pleaded with Angelo for leniency. Angelo initially refuses causing Isabella to say, “Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he’s most assured,…
…His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven. As makes the angels weep, who with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.” She is saying it’s ridiculous that men think they can play (glassy essence/mimic) God and pass…
…judgement. They think they are all knowing, like God, but they are just mimicking him. Like it might be funny if an ape tries to mimic a man, so if the Angels saw man playing God and they had human spleens they would basically piss themselves to death laughing! It’s…
…basically saying you’re so confident that you “know” you’re right. You’ve got some “authority”, you’ve got a degree or whatever, but in actual fact, you’re probably not right. Not only are the verses not racist whatsoever, but it’s a quite brilliant response to jumped up…
…people who come on twitter pretending they know everything (usually because they’ve read it somewhere else on twitter) but actually are quite wrong. Not only will ITV News be a poorer provider without Alastair Stewart, the whole country will become poorer if everything…
…we say has to be filtered, to the extent that we cannot quote Shakespeare without fear of reprisal. Our language is under attack – words which had meaning can now seemingly mean whatever people want them to mean, and English used in its proper form is no…
…longer fit for purpose in this new world of political correctness and the permanently offended. We should take a stand. Unless there is more to this than we know, Alastair Stewart must absolutely be reinstated.
