Word: macbeths
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Hillary Clinton is often compared with the conniving Lady Macbeth (by her enemies) or with the fierce and nurturing Roman goddess Juno (by her supporters). But these days she feels most like Cassandra, desperate to make the case for why she is staying in the race for the Democratic nomination...
Shakespeare is so pervasive, so entrenched in Western cultural life, that his plays can sometimes be overzealously adopted by directors looking for a blank slate. Ophelia the flapper! Macbeth the CEO! King Henry IV the Quarterback! Perhaps no playwright is more frequently a victim of hyper-ambitious, conceptual updates...
...Democrats put on a great show, but they failed to consider the context of Limbaugh’s comment. Limbaugh was referring to Jesse Macbeth, a man who claimed to have killed over 200 people in Iraq but who never made it out of basic training—in short, a phony soldier. When pressed by a caller on Sept. 28 to explain his use of the plural, Limbaugh cited Scott Thomas Beauchamp, whose stories of war crimes by U.S. soldiers were retracted by The New Republic. And regardless of whether Limbaugh employed perfect grammar, a literal reading...
Other scholars will no doubt snicker at Greer's theories - particularly her final assertion that Anne financed the posthumous publishing of Shakespeare's "First Folio," which included 36 plays, 18 of which had not been published before, like The Tempest and Macbeth. But Greer's conjecture, founded on careful research, probably contains more truth than the commonly accepted prejudice does. The poet of marriage may very well have understood what his wife endured, and her devotion to him: "In his plays women are shown time and time again to be constant in love through months and years of separation," Greer...
...Peter Sellars would walk into the dining hall, look around, and go up to someone he’d never met and say, ‘You’d make a GREAT Lady Macbeth,’” Kiely wrote in a recent e-mail. “People who NEVER were on stage got on stage! The whole place was a kind of stage...