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From: The Independent (Bangladesh)
Date: 20011123
Author:Waliur Rahman

Waliur Rahman
The Independent (Bangladesh)
11-23-2001
`Fair is foul, Foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air:'
what Shakespeare said in Macbeth is universal. When one is shorn of any
principled position in politics or in personal life- one does not hesitate
to choose any means to reach one's goal. That was good for the Florentine
Prince Cesare Borgia as perceived by Niccolo Machiavelli, but not for Lorenzo
De Medici. Shakespeare soaked up well the L'esprit D'etat of Cesare Borgia's
time and converted that into the struggle of good and evil coming out of
`murderous ambition' of what is ...

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