Macbeth
Ngaio Marsh: Light Thickens
“Duncan is in his grave; After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. […] Ere the bat hath flown His cloister’d flight, ere to black Hecate’s summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night’s yawning […]
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Book Rescue, Book-Related Places of Pilgrimage … and My Personal Literary Canon, Part 1
24 Festive Tasks: Door 7 – Mawlid, Task 2: The Five Pillars of Islam almsgiving and the pilgrimage to Mekka. Tell us: Have you ever donated books or rescued them from (horror of horrors) being trashed? Alternatively: Is there a book-related place that is a place of pilgrimage to you? If I donate books, I […]
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Holiday Splurge 2015
The way things have been shaping up in the recent couple of months, the holiday season ending today was most likely my last real reprieve from fairly major (not to say time-consuming and persistent) work-related unpleasantness for the foreseeable future. This being the case, I naturally decided to make the most of it: I […]
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“The HandleBards”: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (The Dell, Stratford-upon-Avon, June 14, 2014)
Shakespeare done differently … but I think he’d approve and be as royally entertained as the rest of us – these guys are a total riot! The HandleBards: 4 guys touring all of England on bikes with performances of Macbeth and The Comedy of Errors, covering all of the roles among the four of them […]
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Finding Shakespeare / The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: Macbeth in Scots
Reblgged from: Finding Shakespeare / The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: Macbeth in Scots … in honour of St. Andrews Day 2013. We’re getting into the Scottish mood this week for St. Andrew’s Day on Saturday 30 November. Inspired by a translation of Macbeth into modern Scots by R.L.C. Lorimer (1992) in our library collection, David Hopes […]
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