Preface to Reading Frederick Douglass (for whom it indeed concerns)
Go thou, and like an executioner Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth: All must be even in our government. Richard II. III.iv. 33-36 In a chapter on Shakespeare’s Richard II, James Boyd White proposed “that every claim of authority we can make, on any subject and in any language, should be regarded as […]