The Tragedy of Maccain - Softcover

Rizzi, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 161012040X ISBN 13: 9781610120401

Publisher: Chiringa Inc, 2018

Synopsis

The Bard is back with an all-new classical tragedy! This monumental drama is staged, not in ancient Scotland; rather, in our own times. William Shakespeare's great literary intelligence takes as its material: John MacCain's Vietnam captivity, his sponsorship by intelligence agencies, his Operation Phoenix membership, and the involvement of his associates in President Kennedy's assassination.  Channeled from the Big Library where great minds abide eternally.

Summary of WilliamShakespeare's 'The Tragedy of MacCain: 

In a North Vietnamese jungle clearing, two high-level intelligence agency operatives: MacCain and Colby, encounter three strange women who prophesy that MacCain will become President, while Colby's descendants shall be elite Deep State insiders. Both men want to hear more, but the "weird sisters" vanish. MacCain is Navy Intelligence; his lack of routine flight training being thereason he crashed so many warplanes. 

John F Kennedy promotes MacCain forhis success in recent battles with the Vietnamese Communists, (this seems to support the witches' prophecy). However, the military success that MacCain touted was that of Operation Phoenix, a brutal covert action regime, directly targetingthe population with murder, torture, and extortion. Before the reality of this duplicitous black ops-run policy had become known in Washington, JFK impulsively proposes a visit to MacCain's penthouse apartment in New York.

Is this a high-poweredrifle which I see before me? -- MACCAIN, ACT 2 SCENE 1

Lady Macbeth (George Herbert Walker Bush) reads aloud an e-mail from her husband about theprophecy. She vows to help him become President. MacCain's prepares for Jack Kennedy's arrival  with fancy ladies. The MacCains wait until everyone is asleep; then, Lady MacCain doses the guards with fentanyl, while her husband does in their guest. He regrets this act immediately, but is reassured by his wife. She smears tainted rape-kit evidence on the dead President just as RFK is buzzing in the lobby below. MacCain arrives and goes nuclear, executing the sleeping Secret Service agents in rage and retribution. Martin Luther King and Uncle Sam flee, fearing for their own lives. 

MacCain is now a "made man" in the spook community,but he is plagued by a sense of insecurity. He plans a professional hit on Colby and his son. Colby's corpse is shoved off in his canoe, but the boy escapes the assassins. That night, at a formal dinner, MacCain sees the ghost of Colby and worries the invited VIPs with his mad response. Lady MacCain, now Queen of the Deep State, dismisses the guests and tries to calm her husband. 

Bythe pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes -- ACT 4 SCENE1

MacCain seeks out the witches and learns from them that he will be safe until Central Park marches into battle against him, and that he need not fear anyone born of woman; so he embarks upon a depraved reign of terror, sponsoring drug-fueled mercenary terror gangs to rape and pillage in Syria. Bobby Kennedy, pained with grief, has gone to conferwith Martin Luther King in a safe house. Bobby is young and unsure of himself. Uncle Sam persuades him to lead a commando force against MacCain. Meanwhile, a psychotic Lady MacCain babbles her mad secrets to the CIA doctor. MacCain feels safe enough in his penthouse suite, until he is told that Central Park is moving towards him; Uncle Sam's soldiers display the New York Post headlines boldly screaming: 'MacCain Traitor!' they use them as cover for their assault on the penthouse.MacCain's courage collapses and he denounces the witches.

Exeunt, fighting. Alarums Retreat. Flourish.  UncleSam presents the head of MacCain to The Ghost of JFK, who declares peace and announces a gala ball with invitations to all to attend his inauguration in Washington. Flourish

About this title

About the Author

Martin Rizzi resides in Taxco Guerrero, México and has written several Azucena, the story of a village girl who fell in love with a bull-rider and Ayotzinapa, a 360-page literary novel about the disappearance of the 43 students in Iguala the night of September 26th 2014.

From the Back Cover

SCENE VIII. Luxury Pentouse Apartment OverlookingCentral Park

Enter MACCAIN

MACCAIN

Why should I play the Roman fool, and die
On mine own sword? whiles I see lives,
the gashes Do look better upon them.
Enter UNCLE SAM

UNCLE SAM
Turn, hell-hound, turn!
MACCAIN
Of all men else I have avoided thee:
But get thee back; my soul is too much charged
With blood of thine already.
UNCLE SAM

I have no words:
My voice is in my sword: thou bloodier villain
Than terms can give thee out!
They fight


MACCAIN


You're wasting your time:
As easy as you pass through air
your weapons are like nothing to me:
Go ahead, Pull the trigger. Take yourshot!
I bear a charmed life, which must not yield,
To one of woman born.
UNCLE SAM

Despair thy charm;
And let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee, Uncle Sam is only a mythic character,
an embodyment of the faith of the American people.
MACCAIN
Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,
For it hath cow'd my better part of man!
And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
That palter with us in a double sense;
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee.

UNCLE SAM

Then yield thee, coward,
And live to be the show and gaze o' the time:
We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,
Painted on a pole, and underwrit,
'Here may you see the traitor'

MACCAIN

I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before the Ghost of JFKs feet,
And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
Though Central Park wood do come to my Penthouse,
And thou opposed, being of no dame born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Sam
And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'

Exeunt, fighting. Alarums
Retreat. Flourish. Enter, with drum and colours, THE GHOST OF JFK, THE GHOST OF

RFK, THE GHOST OF MLK, THE GHOST OF FDR, THE GHOST OF LINCOLN, THE

GHOST OF GARFIELD, THE GHOST OF MCKINLEY, the other Thanes,and Soldiers.

THE GHOST OF JFK

I would the friends we miss were safe arrived.

JOE CITIZEN

Some must go off: and yet, by these I see,
So great a day as this is cheaply bought.

GHOST OF RFK

Your noble son.

GHOST OF MLK

Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt:
He only lived but till he was a man;
The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd
In the unshrinking station where he fought,
But like a man he died.

JOE CITIZEN

Then he is dead?

GHOST OF RFK

Ay, and brought off the field: your cause of sorrow
Must not be measured by his worth, for then
It hath no end.

JOE CITIZEN

Had he his orders?

GHOST OF MLK

He rushed to the front.

JOE CITIZEN

Why then, God's soldier be he!
Had I as many sons as I have hairs,
I would not wish them to a fairer death:
And so, his knell is knoll'd.

THE GHOST OF JFK

He's worth more sorrow,
And that I'll spend for him.

JOE CITIZEN

He's worth no more
They say he parted well, and paid his score:
And so, God be with him! Here comes newer comfort.
Re-enter UNCLESAM, with MACCAIN's head

UNCLE SAM

Hail, king! for so thou art: behold, where stands
The usurper's cursed head: the time is free:
I see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl,
That speak my salutation in their minds;
Whose voices I desire aloud with mine:
Hail, the President of the United States!
That you are avenged brings honor to thee.

ALL

Hail, the honorable President of the United States!

Flourish

THE GHOST OF JFK

We shall not spend a large expense of time
Before we reckon with your several loves,
you will want to be getting back to. My thanes and kinsmen,
Henceforth be known as truthers, the first that ever New York
In such an honour named. What's more to do,
Which would be planted newly with the time,
As calling home our exiled friends abroad
That fled the snares of watchful self-censorship
and political correctness of Homeland Security.
Producing forth the cruel ministers
Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands
Took off her life; this, and what needful else
That calls upon us, by the grace of God
We will perform in measure, time and place:
So, thanks to all at once and to each one,
Whom we invite to a White House gala ball.
Flourish. Exeunt

From the Inside Flap

The Tragedy of MacCain

Act I Scene I

North Vietnam Jungle Clearing

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches

First Witch

When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

Second Witch

When thehurlyburly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.

Third Witch

That will be ere the set of sun.

First Witch

Where the place?

Second Witch

In the black rain.

Third Witch

There to meet with MacCain.

First Witch

I come, Graymalkin!

Second Witch

Paddock calls.

Third Witch

Anon.

ALL

Fair is foul,and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.

Exeunt

Edition details

• Publisher: Chiringa Inc
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 161012040X
• ISBN 13: 9781610120401
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160