tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post4613879895315629794..comments2023-10-26T22:06:11.166+11:00Comments on Metamagician3000: Tagged!Russell Blackfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431324430596809958noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-90967892898531152722007-06-29T22:56:00.000+10:002007-06-29T22:56:00.000+10:00I love Macbeth and think it's a wonderful play to ...I love <I>Macbeth</I> and think it's a wonderful play to start with, but bits and pieces of it don't agree with me, preventing me from calling it my favourite. Banquo's role seems too crudely grafted on to please the Stuarts (he being the legendary ancestor of King James). Macduff, who doesn't have the benefit of seeing the Three Witches, still becomes suspicious of Macbeth — suspicious enough to act on his beliefs. Banquo seems a bit of a dunce by comparison, just muttering that Macbeth may have "played most foully for it." (Certainly, he doesn't give any indications of why Macbeth has so high an opinion of his abilities.)<BR/><BR/>And when Banquo gets cut down, he cries to Fleance to run away, that "thou mayst revenge!" (Why doesn't Fleance flee back to the court, where his family has — he must believe — the friendship of the King?) Does Fleance appear in Act V, marching to Dunsinane with the invading army? No, he takes no revenge at all.<BR/><BR/>This is one of the things I really liked about Kurosawa's <I>Throne of Blood</I>: the Banquo counterpart, General Miki, fit with the story, and his son Yoshiaki <I>does</I> fight with the revenging army.Blake Staceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13977394981287067289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-91882312734179667342007-06-29T17:27:00.000+10:002007-06-29T17:27:00.000+10:00I can sympathise with that one, as I had to study ...I can sympathise with that one, as I had to study <I>The Tempest</I> in my final year of high school, and, though I didn't actually resent it, it's certainly true that I didn't understand it. Then again, I loved it even without much understanding, so perhaps it wasn't such a bad thing.<BR/><BR/><I>Macbeth</I> blew me away when I first encountered it at the age of 14. That seems to me to be a good place to start with Shakespeare, at least for boys - with something bloodthirsty.<BR/><BR/><I>Twelfth Night</I> is just hilariously funny, though the humour is rather cruel. What they do to poor Malvolio always cracks me up.Russell Blackfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12431324430596809958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-88326678051239462482007-06-29T09:34:00.000+10:002007-06-29T09:34:00.000+10:00My favourite Shakespeare play is the Tempest. I n...My favourite Shakespeare play is the Tempest. I never managed to "get" why it is taught in high school... no one understands it and therefore everyone resents it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-61936279769777282052007-06-29T07:56:00.000+10:002007-06-29T07:56:00.000+10:00I already got tagged, but I ended up writing about...I <A HREF="http://www.sunclipse.org/?p=148#comment-2082" REL="nofollow">already got tagged</A>, but I ended up writing about <A HREF="http://www.sunclipse.org/?p=177" REL="nofollow">a device for locking shopping carts</A> instead.Blake Staceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13977394981287067289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-32138496670276649792007-06-29T01:03:00.000+10:002007-06-29T01:03:00.000+10:00Hmmm, now there's an interesting thought. I can't ...Hmmm, now there's an interesting thought. I can't think of eight appropriate people, but perhaps there are lots of blogs that I don't know about, especially among sf fans. I'll wait for more folks to protest.Russell Blackfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12431324430596809958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-81115611940746755572007-06-28T21:47:00.000+10:002007-06-28T21:47:00.000+10:00...since almost none of my friends seem to keep bl...<I>...since almost none of my friends seem to keep blogs I'm going to ignore rule 5.</I><BR/><BR/>I suspect you're going to get protests, now...drjonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14351916590417179786noreply@blogger.com