Mark wrote:
It's been a while since I've seen or read MacBeth, so I'm
probably basing this more on Kurosawa's Throne of Blood than
MacBeth itself, but didn't the craziness in that story come
after the fact, brought on by guilt for a murder that had
been committed with the clear motive of advancement?
********** Yes. That's why I said that you got to see them
walking down the path (towards crazy). And also, I see your
point. Technically, they were doing the dirty before they
went crazy.
Shakespeare is great. He's looked at as highbrow now but
that's not the way it was then. He didn't let the subtext get
in the way of fun. He was about as outrageous as a writer
could get by with then. I laughed out loud when I read the
lewd line about the beast with two backs. Bawdy with plenty
of gratuitous violence. Eye-gouging and sword-stabbing in
King Lear. Not subtly done off-stage. Hell with that.
Shakespeare was a crowd-pleaser. And Othello, too. I just
read that for the first time here recently. Can't beat
it.
miker
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