Even Stephen

Renaissance scholar Stephen Greenblatt faces off with Stephen Colbert on the Presidential candidates' resemblance to Shakespearean characters.



Highlights:

• "Sure, MacBeth murdered his friend the king, but that just makes him a McMaverick."
• "I think you've got a weak trochee in there."
• "I think Shakespeare thought all his life about precisely military heroism and whether it c0uld translate into leadership... and of course, he thought, it almost never did... A total catastrophe, and not only a total catastrophe, but a horrible exchange of honor for power and power exercised terribly."
• Also, the glorious exchange of quotations at the end.