Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Squire, English poet and critic, declared that the best line in all English poetry is: "The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon." (Macbeth...
...time to be forgotten; but a New York newspaper revives it by advising the inventor how he should quiz the applicants for his Literary Department. The new questionnaire is a match for any mid-years. Passing over in bewilderment such queries as "Who drinks the porter in Macbeth?" "Who wrote the famous poker scene in which Pippa passes?" and "When did A. H. Woods produce "Getting Goethe's Garter'?" the student will pause at number thirteen. For once the ancient hoodoo reems to be broken; here is a question for which he can hope to find an answer. It reads...
...other solution is "Expressionism," about which at present there is much alarmed twaddle. The only really fearsome thing about expressionism is its name-and an occasional crime (such as Lionel Barrymore's Macbeth last year) committed in its name...
...five lectures on "The five tragedies of Shakspere" at 8 o'clock this evening in Sanders Theatre. "Othello" will be the subject of his talk tonight, and it is expected that Professor Kittredge will treat it by a critical analysis in much the same way as he dealt with "Macbeth" last Tuesday evening...
...sleep-walking" scene was described by Professor Kittredge as the most pathetic in all tragedy. "But the culmination", he concluded, "comes in Macbeth's reception of the news of his wife's death. His placid comment on the subject is in direct contrast to the passionate love for her evinced in earlier scenes. This--more than the murder of Duncan, more than the slaying of Banquo--this is the tragedy of Macbeth...