"Sadly I fear that Shakespeare's 'Crassus,' now showing in the theater of my imagination, might be just as controversial as the new "Julius Caesar" were it staged as an evocation of the Trump era, since it would end with its slain-by-Parthians Crassus having molten gold, a symbol of his avarice, poured into his open mouth."
— Douthat, Ross (b. November 28, 1979)
Date
June 14, 2017
Metaphor
"Sadly I fear that Shakespeare's 'Crassus,' now showing in the theater of my imagination, might be just as controversial as the new "Julius Caesar" were it staged as an evocation of the Trump era, since it would end with its slain-by-Parthians Crassus having molten gold, a symbol of his avarice, poured into his open mouth."
Metaphor in Context
Sadly I fear that Shakespeare's "Crassus," now showing in the theater of my imagination, might be just as controversial as the new "Julius Caesar" were it staged as an evocation of the Trump era, since it would end with its slain-by-Parthians Crassus having molten gold, a symbol of his avarice, poured into his open mouth.
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Ross Douthat, "The Trumpiest Roman of Them All," The New York Times (June 14, 2017). <Link to NYTimes.com>
Date of Entry
06/15/2017
