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James Earl Jones reads an excerpt from Shakespeare’s Othello at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word on May 12, 2009:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.”

David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature