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I actually started this program with Steve Maler who's the director of Commonwealth
Shakespeare Company thirteen years ago. Daniel Kelly: Against thee
arm to arm.
Came up with this idea that we would get
lawyers, public officials, judges
to actually do an abridge reading of one of Shakespeare's plays, and then talk
about the political and legal aspects of it. Man: One that you put in was this royal throne of
kings, this scepter aisle. Beautiful.
Daniel Kelly: This stuff was written four hundred years ago and you hear it today and
things resonant in your ears about your own emotions, about the political
situation; about every aspect of human life. Man: For that my sovereign liege
was in my debt.
Now swallow down that lie!
Daniel Kelly:I want Suffolk law students to
understand that the things... the dry subject matter that they think they're
studying in law school
it resonates in the greatest literature of our time.
Daniel Kelly: Fall to the base of... Julia Hanson: I do enjoy the chance to see
Shakespeare and the idea of seeing it in conjunction with legal ideas was very interesting. whole anti-business staged in
It seems like it gives it more life and kind of brings in the drama because
obviously reading case books can seem very dry and seeing it acted out in a very realistic way
it makes it come alive. Daniel Kelly: ...through streams of blood.
Judge Gertner: How high up...his resolution soars.
Garrett Marques: I actually had Judge Gertner in a class last year
this role in particular is an opposite role as to how she's used to and how she
uh... believes in power and how power should be. I think it's a much different
position than what she would normally be used to.
Man: And by the grace of God and this my arm
to prove him in defending of myself... Daniel Kelly: The principles that they're learning in class really have
application in literature and to the real world so that they can connect, sort of these
fundamental, great
tenants that Shakespeare is talking about and his work and that they can connect
with that and then bring it to their study, into their practice, they'll be a better lawyer.
Judge Gertner: Our subjects
or our land.