Be Mercury set feathers to thy heels and fly like thought from them to me again
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Kevin Conway: In a contemporary play somebody would say: hey you, go over there get that thing and bring it back to me. That would be the line. Shakespeare says it: be Mercury set feathers to thy heels and fly like thought from them to me again
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In a contemporary play somebody would say
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Hey you go over there get that thing and bring it back to me
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That would be the line Shakespeare says it
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Be Mercury Set feathers to thy heels
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and fly like thought from them to me again
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Movie Summary
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."
