Is Rupert Murdoch a tragic King Lear? Michael Witmore of the Folger Shakespeare Library in D.C. says no: "Tragedy involves sympathetic characters who have gone wrong, but eventually come to self-knowledge... Murdoch is not being portrayed this way in the media... Murdoch seems to me more like Claudius in the play Hamlet. Claudius has gotten control of the kingdom through guile, and puts Hamlet under surveillance... Claudius ends up being 'hoist on his own petard.'"
The link to the audio interview is here. Ah, "Those few, those unscrupulous few, that band of hackers."
