Macbeth

Don't you kind of hate how we've entered the decadent phase of Goodreads wherein perhaps fifty percent (or more) of the reviews written by non-teenagers and non-romancers are now naked and unabashed in their variously effective attempts at being arch, wry, meta, parodic, confessional, and/or snarky?......more

This play always holds a place in my heart and the top spot of most embarassing moments in my life. To be fair it was probably my fault as I’d never heard the superstition about not calling the “Scottish play” by name, and since it was my role I’d been shouting Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth all day. In fi......more

Macbeth is Shakespeare's darkest play not only because of the restricted palette of its images--shades of black varied with bright red blood--but also because, in the play's world of warfare and witchcraft, its hero is half-damned from the start. Inured to violence, prone to superstition, Macbeth st......more

highlights of this play include, but are not limited to: - the witches! they are the original halloween qweens. they are serving some major spooky realness. also, they went and haunted a woman just because she wouldnt share her hazelnuts. that is the exact level of petty that i aspire to be. - lady m......more

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing هذا في رأيي هو أفضل سطر كتب عن العدمية في التاريخ وهو السطر الذي استمد منه فولكنز عنوان روايته الشهيرة -الصخب والعنف هذا هو كتابي المفضل رقم (1)‏ وسيظل كذلك ما حييت نبوغ شكسبير لا يحتاج أحدا ليدلل عليه فأكيف بالله عليكم أحلل أو أناقش عملا له ل......more