Random instance / Hamlet being used as metaphor:I found this article from the newspaper The Hindu, (or as it says under the paper's logo) "India's National Newspaper." The article uses Hamlet as a metaphor throughout, in this case about the content of the World Bank's flagship publication, the World Development Report -- published once a year with recommendations about reducing poverty. In this case, the report was apparently controversial, since although it did talk about economic growth, it presumably didn't emphasize growth enough to placate the U.S., but rather focused more on the need for greater asset equality/redistribution (yeah--god forbid).
Quotes:
"In a speech last March, Mr. Lawrence Summers, U.S. Treasury Secretary, said 'discussions of poverty reduction that do not lay primary emphasis on economic growth are like Hamlet without the prince.'"
"In the intervening months, the head of the team preparing the WDR quit because of pressures from inside and outside the World Bank to change the emphasis in the report. We now have, in a manner of speaking, Hamlet with the Prince of Denmark."
"All that we have by way of evidence is a reference to just two research studies. (One of the two - 'Growth is Good for the Poor' - was prepared at the World Bank in March 2000, i.e. after the draft WDR was put out, and is widely believed to have been an in-house criticism of the Hamlet-without-the-prince version.)"
