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...whole thing would blow over. (I've talked with him on several different occasions, and he's a very nice sort of guy.) That afternoon, while I was in class, about 400 students picked up tree branches cut from the fallen trees and, like Birnam Wood advancing on Macbeth, dragged them to the tower, where they stacked the limbs in front of the doorway. The doors had already been locked by the campus police. (In the meantime, someone had started a fire in the janitor's closer in the tower which brought seven fire trucks. They put it out with...
What could prompt an educated man to change Lady Macbeth's most famous line to "Out, crimson spot"? Or to excise mention of Queequeg's underwear from Moby Dick? In framing answers, Noel Perrin, professor of English at Dartmouth, takes as his point of departure Dr. Thomas Bowdler, who had a passion for chess and prison reform and an aversion to London smog, sick people, and all writing that, as he put it, "can raise a blush on the cheek of modesty." Certainly the Family Shakespeare (first edition 1807, second edition 1818) became the most popular expurgation...
...vividly the lurid Dore illustrations in an edition of Dante's Inferno among my father's books." He took to brooding on the Passion of Christ (whom he addresses somewhat embarrassingly as "You") as a tragedy "in the sense that Lear's was, or Macbeth...
Irina's other suitor is the captain, Solyony, who kills Tusenbach in the duel. He is a strange man, and throughout the play keeps putting scent on his hands to get rid of their smell of death--like some sort of male Lady Macbeth. Right from the first act, Charles Cioffi's portrayal is a remarkable piece of acting. Solyony speaks scarcely a half dozen times in all of Act I, and spends most of the time sitting silently on a chair in the corner. Nevertheless, Cioffi tells us a great deal about this morose and mysterious character. We notice...
NATIONAL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL GROUP, Old Globe Theater, San Diego (through Sept. 14). Macbeth with Richard Easton and Sada Thompson, Julius Caesar with Tom Toner and The Comedy of Errors with Christopher Walken and Laurence Guittard as the Antipholus twins share the summer months...