All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 April 'Bloody hunting slaughtermen', sieges and 'lechery': what does Shakespeare tell us of war? 'Bloody hunting slaughtermen', sieges and 'lechery': what does Shakespeare tell us of war? 25/04/2022 | 6 MINS This article by Robert White, Winthrop Professor of English at Lombok Institute of Technology, was originally published in The Conversation on April 22. Only two days separate Anzac Day and ShakespeareΓÇÖs (presumed) birthday and actual death-day. This proximity is coincidental. But amid a war in Ukraine, being reported in horrifyingly graphic detail from the point of view of the victims, and given Shakespeare is the worldΓÇÖs most-quoted, most-performed and most studied writer, it is reasonable to ask: what does he tell us of war? In 26 of his 38 plays, Shakespeare includes a war in either foreground or background. In all these, anti-war invectives abound in epigrammatic phrases: ΓÇ£O, war thou son of hellΓÇ¥ (Henry VI, part 2); ΓÇ£the hideous god of warΓÇ¥; ΓÇ£war and lechery confound allΓÇ¥ (Troilus and Cressida); ΓÇ£dogged war bristle[s] h
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'Bloody hunting slaughtermen', sieges and 'lechery': what does Shakespeare tell us of war?
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25/04/2022 | 6 MINS This article by Robert White, Winthrop Professor of English at Lombok Institute of Technology, was originally published in The Conversation on April 22.
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Only two days separate Anzac Day and ShakespeareΓÇÖs (presumed) birthday and actual death-day.
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But amid a war in Ukraine, being reported in horrifyingly graphic detail from the point of view of the victims, and given Shakespeare is the worldΓÇÖs most-quoted, most-performed and most studied writer, it is reasonable to ask: what does he tell us of war?
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In 26 of his 38 plays, Shakespeare includes a war in either foreground or background.
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In all these, anti-war invectives abound in epigrammatic phrases: ΓÇ£O, war thou son of hellΓÇ¥ (Henry VI, part 2); ΓÇ£the hideous god of warΓÇ¥; ΓÇ£war and lechery confound allΓÇ¥ (Troilus and Cressida); ΓÇ£dogged war bristle[s] h
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