Uncle Bill Shakespeare...Alive and Well!

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"Failing to recognize our love of salt can be our undoing. It is as true in literature as it is in life. In the opening scene of Shakespeare’s King Lear, the aged king asks his three daughters to quantify their love for him. The older daughters, Goneril and Regan, who ultimately will betray their father, flatter him with hyperbole."

"The youngest daughter, Cordelia, who truly loves him declines to answer, thinking it a silly question. When Lear insists upon a response she offers a curious reply, “I love you…as fresh meat loves salt.” Taking affront, he casts her out and divides his kingdom between his two daughters. Bad choice as it turns out."

"Later in the play, Lear comes to understand that meat does love salt; rather people love meat only if it is salted. He also comes to learn that false praise is hollow and is ultimately reunited with the virtuous but ill-fated, Cordelia. Shakespeare did not discover salt’s importance; he merely enshrined it in literature."
 
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"Failing to recognize our love of salt can be our undoing. It is as true in literature as it is in life. In the opening scene of Shakespeare’s King Lear, the aged king asks his three daughters to quantify their love for him. The older daughters, Goneril and Regan, who ultimately will betray their father, flatter him with hyperbole."

"The youngest daughter, Cordelia, who truly loves him declines to answer, thinking it a silly question. When Lear insists upon a response she offers a curious reply, “I love you…as fresh meat loves salt.” Taking affront, he casts her out and divides his kingdom between his two daughters. Bad choice as it turns out."

"Later in the play, Lear comes to understand that meat does love salt; rather people love meat only if it is salted. He also comes to learn that false praise is hollow and is ultimately reunited with the virtuous but ill-fated, Cordelia. Shakespeare did not discover salt’s importance; he merely enshrined it in literature."
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Columbo v. Macbeth

“Dagger of the Mind.” By Jackson Gillis. Perf. Peter Falk, Richard Basehart, John Williams, Honor Blackman, Bernard Fox, Arthur Malet, and Wilfrid Hyde-White. Dir. Richard Quine. Columbo. Season 2, episode 4. NBC. 26 November 1972. DVD. Universal, 2005.

"Dagger of the Mind" | Columbo: Season 2 Ep. 4 Review​


"Some time ago, a student mentioned an episode of Columbo that was heavily-indebted to Macbeth. I stored that knowledge away until I could track down the episode, investigate it, and contemplate its relation to Shakespeare. Only recently did I manage to do so." (Continue)
 

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