If you didn’t need sleep, what would you do with all the extra time? When I was at Berkeley, one of the undergrads decided he wanted to do a production of the Scottish Play. (The one named after the character who is mentioned in this post’s title; the play is supposedly cursed, so you areContinue reading “Macbeth Hath Murdered Sleep!”
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Cliches To Live By
What principles define how you live? Shakespeare used serious elements in his comedies to make them more realistic, and added comic elements to his tragedies to heighten (or deepen) the gravity of the action. We see a strong example of this in the Scottish play with the Porter, who plays at being Hell’s doorman; it’sContinue reading “Cliches To Live By”
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