Lawrence Hall, HSG
[email protected] Shakespearean, with a Touch of Crass
…a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more
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Macbeth V.v.24-26
An old man’s friends – they knifed him in the back
With inky blots, denying him his custom and rule
He was Caesar, perhaps, or Duncan or Lear
His dear ones Brutus, Macbeth, or Goneril
Hopes of the future, campaigners of joy
Conspiring over poisoned chalices
And gnawing like bones the remnants of their souls
Surprised in their plots by a brazen apparition
Who is this who intrudes upon their narrow stage?
Andronicus – to ****** us with yet another new age
The rest is noise