Word: macbethness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family group asked Long if she found it tough being a woman in her position. (Her answer: "For me, being a woman has never been a liability.") Later, a teacher expressed disappointment that Long couldn't visit her English class: the students had just written a rap song about Macbeth. "She asked if I would come back and hear it," says Long, whose day in school at least impressed on her the importance of not dropping out. "I said sure...
...rusted metal panels that bang like thunder and tumble away at key moments, is effective but excessive, a tacit confession of shaky faith in the power of the play's words. That doubt is foolish. Medea is the greatest role ever written for a woman, fiercer than Lady Macbeth, more lovelorn than Phedre. Despite Rigg's shortcomings as Euripides' virago, the role makes her the odds-on contender to join Caldwell and Judith Anderson, who played the part on Broadway in 1948, as winners of a Tony Award for Best Actress...
When I first read Death of a Salesman in 10th grade, it was something very new and fresh for me. Having only read dramas such as Shakespeare's Hamlet and MacBeth, I thought plays were only about Large Male Figures. In contrast, Death of a Salesman tells the story of a Small Male Figure...
...content with another Oscar bid as an actor (Remains of the Day), Anthony Hopkins will try directing. The film is that notorious bad-luck vehicle Macbeth. Hopkins is protecting himself with a strong star: himself...
...folk wisdom of food has degenerated into commercial slogans -- for the kitchen is a place of remembered magic. What are spells, if not womankind's oldest recipes? What is a caldron but a pot for witches' bouillabaisse? Snow White's stepmother was Apple Annie with a grudge, and Macbeth's Weird Sisters were the sous-chefs of Destiny. If a woman's place is at the stove, then it is there she spent millenniums perfecting her potions. She let her power simmer over a low flame; then she served up the concoction, a work of art from the hearth...