"First…….let’s Kill All The Lawyers” Shakespeare, Henry VI
Author: Ruth Roberts
My favorite fictional character, and professional role model, Rumpole of the Bailey, was notorious for quoting at length from Shakespeare, and the classics. It is often a guilty pleasure of mine. How better to express all the grandeur and tragedy and nuance of humanity, than through the golden eloquence of some of the greatest writers of all time? They were able to distill overwhelming events into understandable and manageable paragraphs; they were able to poignantly sum up human emotion, so it became somehow contained. And so, in these times that have so tried our souls, the words of the Bard are more needed than ever.