“Let’s [NOT] Kill All the Lawyers”

by David P. Gontar (January 2016)

Courtier:  Sire, the peasants are revolting.  
Tsar:  Yes,  aren’t they? 
                                    –  Ken Solin

One of the most puzzled-over lines in Shakespeare is “The first thing we do let’s kill all the lawyers.” (King Henry VI, Part II, IV, ii, 78). Some take this outrageous utterance as a mere “Lawyer Joke”  more>>>