Abraham lincoln, is bracketed by arguably the least successful american president s. This Holiday Weekend on cspan. Next, interior secretary ryan zinke discusses the rules of war in the modern world at an event that compared how the war was for portrayed in shakespeares work and how its executed today. Hosted by the Shakespeare Theater Company here in washington, this is 90 minutes. Good evening. My name is karen spence, director of the Shakespeare Theater Company. Thank you for joining us. [applause] thank you so much for joining us for tonights Bard Association shakespeare discussion. Tonights discussion is shakespeare and the rules of war, from athens to aleppo. I want to remind everyone to silence all your Electronic Devices and to let you know that video and photography of this discussion is prohibited but at this point it is an honor to introduce tonights moderator, stephen m ryan. He is a member of our board of trustees as well as the association and has chaired our annual fundr