Shakespeare on Brexit

O judgement!  Thou art fled to brutish beasts
And men have lost their reason.[1]

-                  Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2

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[1] William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, eds. Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen (New York: The Modern Library, 2011), p. 58.

Shakespeare tweets on the Alberta oil sands

Now o’er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead.[i]

~ Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1

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[i] William Shakespeare, Macbeth, ed., Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen (New York:  The Modern Library, 2009), p. 27.