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Post by shiloh on Feb 13, 2014 5:16:30 GMT
This is for anyone who read Shakespeare....
I'll start, Mine was Macbeth.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2014 5:39:19 GMT
Mine was Romeo and Juliet. I thought that was so romantic, and so sad the way it ended.
I remember having to do a soliloquy in front of the class in Junior High School. It went like this:
"Oh, Romeo, Romeo, wherefor art, thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name...or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet."
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Post by shiloh on Feb 13, 2014 5:46:04 GMT
Yeah! The Montagues and the Capulets!
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Post by Benjamin on Feb 13, 2014 6:51:23 GMT
I actually did a thesis on Macbeth - entitled "Celtic Macbeth: the Triune goddess in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'". It was about the fact that the "weird sisters" in Macbeth, commonly described as witches, are actually anything but - they're a Celtic goddess... and if you interpret the text according to a Celtic context, rather than an Elizabethan context, the meaning of the text changes dramatically. Macbeth becomes a tragic figure rather than a villain - the victim of a cruel play by a twisted goddess. Long story short? Shakespeare is my specialty  |
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Post by shiloh on Feb 13, 2014 7:42:56 GMT
Yes! I found that rather interesting after I had done more research on it after reading it in highschool and we saw the movie. They DID portray them as witches but I read the same thing you wrote. That play just interested me.
Edit: I felt really bad for Macbeth. That was very tragic.
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Post by Benjamin on Feb 13, 2014 8:02:27 GMT
Well, the text portrays them as witches too. In fact, it explicitly states that they're witches.
...the catch is that the two passages that refer to them as such weren't actually written by Shakespeare, they were additions by Middleton, who wrote a play of his own called (wait for it), "The Witch".
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Post by elizabeth on Feb 13, 2014 19:39:18 GMT
Is it commonly accepted that Middleton wrote the 2 passages?
Edit to add: It's okay Benjamin, I looked it up on the net, and found a source that said it was highly probable. That is rather big as MacBeth is so associated with the witches scene. I haven't read a Shakespeare play in 40 years but I used to love them.
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Post by Benjamin on Feb 13, 2014 21:26:46 GMT
Highly probable is right.
In my thesis, I did a textual analysis of the two passages, comparing them with Middleton's "The Witch". Some parts (such as a song in Macbeth) are literally taken directly from "The Witch", so the discussion isn't whether Middleton's passages made their way into Macbeth, but whether or not it was only a few key parts, such as the songs, or those entire scenes.
From my study, it's the entire two scenes.
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