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Churchill’s Shakespeare: “Romeo and Juliet”
16
Aug
2023
By VALERIE LILLINGTON AND RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Churchill wrote of his father, “Would he, under the many riddles the future had reserved for such as he, snapped the tie of sentiment that bound him to his party, resolved at last to ‘shake the yoke of inauspicious stars’….?” The line is from Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Sc. 3, almost at the end of the play, where Romeo slays Count Paris....
Churchill and Shakespeare without Melodrama: A Response to Jonathan Rose
08
Sep
2020
Churchill’s Memorable Allusions to William Shakespeare’s Richard II
23
Nov
2019
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Churchill knew his Shakespeare and had a near-photographic memory. Darrell Holley’s Churchill’s Literary Allusions tells us he alludes to Shakespeare more than any other English author. King John, Richard III and Hamlet are his most frequent references. Henry V also moved and inspired him. He also closely read Richard II, generally accepting Shakespeare’s portrayal of his cruelty and vindictiveness.
“Mirrored in the Pool of England”: Churchill, Shakespeare, and Henry V
16
Apr
2019
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Richard Langworth looks at the importance of Shakespeare, especially "Henry V," on Churchill and his rhetoric during World War II.
Churchill, Lincoln, and Shakespeare
16
Dec
2016
2
Winston Churchill and William Shakespeare
18
Jul
2016
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
In his book Churchill's Literary Allusions, Darrell Holley writes: "There is no English author whom Churchill alludes to as often as to William Shakespeare. Both by formal quotations, some quite lengthy, and by well-known phrases almost hidden in his text, Churchill makes allusion to many of Shakespeare's plays."
Churchill, Shakespeare, and Agincourt
24
Oct
2015
2
Churchill in Film and Video: Part 2, Documentary Productions
12
Mar
2024
1
By GWEN THOMPSON, DAVE TURRELL AND RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Part 1 of “Churchill in Film and Video” comprised dramatizations—fiction based on Churchill’s life. Part 2 presents documentary productions. Both compilations constitute a work on progress, subject to amendment and addition. Comments or corrections are most welcome.
We have linked films available on the Internet. For others, check streaming video suppliers such as Netflix.
Pericles and Churchill: Matching Leadership, Millennia Apart
15
Feb
2024
By JUSTIN D. LYONS
Pericles sought to preserve Athens, its glory, power and reputation. Churchill demanded struggle not only for Britain, but for the very meaning of Britain—something larger than its borders, more powerful than its military strength and, ultimately more important than its survival: liberty. Churchill’s war was a battle for the freedom of man, to be defended first at home and then upon whatever far-flung fields the conflict would rage.
Winston Churchill Retells the World’s Great Stories, Part 1
03
Aug
2023
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
“[W]e are not writing great stories summarised, but great stories retold,” Churchill wrote Eddie Marsh. “It is essential to select the salient features of the tale and make them live in all their fullness, leaving the rest in darkness. Both Dickens and Dumas mixed up a lot of rot and padding in their writing for feuilleton purposes, all of which goes overboard through my lee scuppers.... I know A Tale of Two Cities well, though I suppose I shall have to re-read it. It certainly lends itself to dramatic pemmicanisation.”
Churchill’s Descriptive Power: The River War and Herbert Kitchener
13
Jul
2023
By ALAN STRAUS-SCHOM
Churchill deftly describes Herbert Kitchener, Sirdar of the Anglo-Egyptian Army, with whom he would have more encounters in a greater war to come. No detail escapes his gaze. Kitchener inspected everything from machine shops to transport to cooking arrangements, even verifying the quality of grain, clothing, and food. Churchill at this time sees Kitchener as “ungracious”: cold and aloof, incapable of any human warmth. Later, in the First World War, he was more magnanimous.
How Churchill Saw the Second World War as a Moral Conflict
20
Oct
2022
1
By JUSTIN D. LYONS
Hitler appealed to everything that is darkest in the human heart. Churchill himself appealed to different passions. He summoned the virtues of the British people and helped them find strength within themselves. He sought to elevate rather than to debase; to raise Britons from a desire for security above all to a contemplation of the just and the noble; to embolden them to face sacrifice and death rather than see the armies of evil pound their booted rhythms on the earth.