I took part in a performance of Macbeth back in college. It taught me that acting meant very little spotlights and glamour, and a great deal of sitting around bored while the director and the technical guys fiddled with the lighting.
The places where witch hunting was the most extreme were mostly those where there was deep religious antagonism over the Reformation. Spain, Portugal and Italy had very few witch hunts (and in Spain the Inquisition regarded belief in witches as highly dubious if not heretical). In Orthodox Russia there wasn't even a law against witchcraft until the 16th century, and it was aimed squarely at Uralic shamans not witches in the Western sense-- and the penalty was exile not death.
Wikipedia gives the name of his wife as Gruoch though not much is known about her beyond the fact that she was the granddaughter of Kenneth II and had a son by her first husband, MacBeth's cousin.
Re: Lady Macbeth is one of the most noted female antagonists in literary history
Yes, though I would say she is quite eclipsed by Antigone. (OK, maybe she's a protagonist instead)
“Coups are bad, ok” seems to be the message of Macbeth, Hamlet, and Julius Caesar. Since the most important man in the audience when a new play was first performed was usually King James, you can see why. I also suspect King James was responsible for the archaic language Shakespeare used in his plays (not so much the soliloquies, and not at all his sonnets) - the king seemed to like it, as it made its way into his version of the bible, with its “doths” and whatnot.
I took part in a performance of Macbeth back in college. It taught me that acting meant very little spotlights and glamour, and a great deal of sitting around bored while the director and the technical guys fiddled with the lighting.
At least "Crooked Hillary" can now take solace that she was not the only candidate (or the only female) to lose the presidency to the Donald!
Tilda Swinton's family apparently got given their land by supporting Malcolm against Macbeth.
Scotland had some of the worst witch hunts in Europe in the Early Modern Era:
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The places where witch hunting was the most extreme were mostly those where there was deep religious antagonism over the Reformation. Spain, Portugal and Italy had very few witch hunts (and in Spain the Inquisition regarded belief in witches as highly dubious if not heretical). In Orthodox Russia there wasn't even a law against witchcraft until the 16th century, and it was aimed squarely at Uralic shamans not witches in the Western sense-- and the penalty was exile not death.
Re: there was presumably a real Lady Macbeth.
Wikipedia gives the name of his wife as Gruoch though not much is known about her beyond the fact that she was the granddaughter of Kenneth II and had a son by her first husband, MacBeth's cousin.
Re: Lady Macbeth is one of the most noted female antagonists in literary history
Yes, though I would say she is quite eclipsed by Antigone. (OK, maybe she's a protagonist instead)
“Coups are bad, ok” seems to be the message of Macbeth, Hamlet, and Julius Caesar. Since the most important man in the audience when a new play was first performed was usually King James, you can see why. I also suspect King James was responsible for the archaic language Shakespeare used in his plays (not so much the soliloquies, and not at all his sonnets) - the king seemed to like it, as it made its way into his version of the bible, with its “doths” and whatnot.