In 1905, Mark Twain wrote a caustic satire, "King Leopold's Soliloquy," in which the Belgian king tries to justify the unspeakable atrocities he committed for his personal enrichment during his 25-year autocratic rule of the Congo. "These chatterers! They tell… how every shilling I get costs a rape, a mutilation or a life. But they never say,...
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53AM on January 13, 2023