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Raskolnikov Rates the Plays Right off the bat, I hate the cross-dressing comedies the most.There’s nothing funny about life on earth, as you very well know. Let’s start with the pawnbroker’s brow— X marks the spot where my ax smashed her head, a wavy zigzag of blood staining the floor.There’s nothing a boy loves more than mayhem. Titus—now there’s a comic dish to set before the king. Or Richard III. My God, he fought like a Cossack. Part monster, part bulldog; he took the Plantagenets down with him. Of course, I just adore Macbeth, but forget that mealymouthed Hamlet—bookloving malcontent. Give me a tyrant any day—Saddam, Nebuchadnezzar, both king and bottle of champagne. O pop a cork for Babylonia—now, I believe, called Iraq. 44 ...

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