Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩: "did anyone want to hear a #Sha…" - Mastodon

did anyone want to hear a #Shakespeare speech castigating nativist cruelty against #immigration?

of course such a speech exists: bigoted malice against #immigrants is not new. the wicked have long yoked the ignorant and indecent for power

it refers to a real event: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_May…

it is called "The Strangers' Case" speech

from the play "Sir Thomas More"

here delivered by #IanMcKellen from memory

(#Gandalf, #Magneto, etc)

on "The Late Show With #StephenColbert"

This is absolutely breathtaking!

mastodon.social/@benroyce/1160…

1517 riot by London apprentices hostile toward Flemish merchants in the city

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