Did you know that it is considered bad luck in theater
circles to utter the name of this play aloud if you're not performing it? That
is why it has been affectionately dubbed "The Scottish Play." The
first rule of Macbeth? Don't talk about Macbeth :).
Anyway
this is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays, even though it is a tragedy where
everyone dies. I guess because it has a bit of fantastical elements going on
with the three witches giving Macbeth bad life advice. The comic at the
beginning kind of sums up the story. Macbeth kills a lot of people to become
king on advice of the Weird Sisters and ends up getting killed himself by Macduff
who was born by C Section and therefore was not born of a woman.
Tolkien
was also influenced by the play himself. His Ents are the answer to Great
Birnam Wood coming to High Dunsinane Hill.
He also places Eowyn in the place of Macduff because no man
may kill the witch king, but she is no man.
A fun play even if it does get a little dark.
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