Bill Koslosky blogs about the attempt to take Shakespeare’s “First kill all the lawyers” (approx) line as actually being pro-lawyer, drawing on a Seth Finkelstein post.

I agree with Bill and Seth that it is hard indeed to take that line as anything but anti-lawyer. I’d only make two points:

First, one line of argument by the Shakespeare-didn’t-write-Shakespeare folks says that the author of the Works must have been a lawyer because of all the legal language and metaphors, especially in the sonnets.

Second, clearly Shakespeare was thinking in the back of his mind, “But not the Berkman Center.” [Tags: shakespeare lawyers berkman ]

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