What is it?
‘Shakespeare’s Views on the News’ is a monthly, 30 minute TV-serial program produced on TVTV (Tualatin Valley Television) Cable Channel, Portland, Oregon. In the program, miscellaneous pieces of local or national news are selected and commented on. The comment terminates with the most befitting Shakespearean quotation.

A ‘Guess the Quote’ contest is held in each episode. The winner gets a prize offered by the Sponsor of the Program, Computer Friends, Inc. located in Portland, Oregon.

Click here to view dates and times of the current episode and to participate in the 'Guess the Quote' contest.

Why Shakespeare?
Shakespeare's works are the encyclopedia of the soul and the dictionary of emotions. Shakespeare himself is the Mohammed Ali of the gab, the undisputed punch line champion of the world, of the past, the present and probably the future. In his 37 plays we find just about all situations we can encounter in life, emotions we can feel, virtues we can admire and vices we are bound to hate. Therefore many of the follies (and occasional virtues) we see or hear of today have been captured and encapsulated by Shakespeare in one of his plays (or Sonnets).

Specifically, the quotes are extracted from a book by Jimmie Moglia, "Your Daily Shakespeare",  an Arsenal of Verbal Weapons to drive your Friends into Action and your Enemies into Despair", and equally, "An Arsenal of Irresistible Verbal Tools of Romantic Conquest. Aimed equally at the Shy and the Bold. Includes a large Collection of thoroughly-explained, amusing-to-learn, easy-to-apply, ready-to-use, field-tested Examples."

The Producer
The show is produced and presented by Jimmie Moglia.

• Age - "Though not clean past my youth, yet there is yet some smack of age in me, some relish of the saltness of time." (from King Henry IV, part 2). See also AGE, an extract from Your Daily Shakespeare.
• Education - Engineering Degree and a Shakespeare ‘Road’ scholar.
• Strengths - In the eye of the assessor.
• Weaknesses - A special attraction for what is utterly and incontestably useless.
• Other writings - A pen is a dangerous thing. Too much to list, but if you are suffering from insomnia I suggest any of the following: 
  • The Toner of Peyton Place
  • Topless in Venice
  • Bewitched in Todi
  • Inquisition at Work
  • The Zen of Jet Cartridge Refilling
  • Dante, Bush and Mussolini
  • The Magic Words of George W.
  • Xantippe at the Dinner Table
  • If it is Tuesday, it must be Cuba
  • An Apennine Winter's Tale
  • Disguise Discovered
  • Secret Treasons of the World
  • Democracy a Dialog
  • Recollections and Reflections
  • The Befana Inquiry
  • The Cat that Came Two Days Before Christmas
  • Science in the Kitchen
  • A Feline Christmas Carol
  • Also released Your Daily Shakespeare, an Arsenal of Verbal Weapons to Drive your Friends Into Action and your Enemies into Despair. This is the most unusual and useful reverse Dictionary of Shakespearean Quotations. 1388 pages. Click here for more information.
• Invite Jimmie as a speaker - click here

Want to Know More?
Click here for an irreverent and thoroughly incomplete profile.

Archives of Previous Episodes

On the Origin of the Moglia Name
Click here for all the information I could find.

 

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