Miker,
If you haven't already checked it out, look out for Titus
Andronicus. Shakespeare doesn't get any more outrageous than
that.
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Robison
To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 3:21 AM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Name Your
Poison
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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