“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
At the risk of belabouring my point (m’eh) but, also, because I’m having so much fun, I thought I’d stay with Shakespeare today and tell the same story – Again. Let’s move from Scotland to Denmark…”There’s something rotten in the state of Denmark.” If Macbeth is my fave, then Hamlet fills me with AWE. The […]
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O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!… Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence The life o’ th’ building! MacDuff Macduff is the archetype of the avenging hero, not simply out for revenge but with a […]
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Duncan: See, see, our honour’d hostess! The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you How you shall bid God ‘ild us for your pains, And thank us for your trouble. Banquo: So I lose none In seeking to augment it, but still keep My bosom […]
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‘Out, damned spot! out, I say!—One: two: why, then, ’tis time to do’t.—Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.’ Lady Macbeth […]
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“To know my deed, ’twere best not know myself.” – Spoken by Macbeth just after he has murdered Duncan. SparkNotes Character Profile of Macbeth: Before he kills Duncan, Macbeth is plagued by worry and almost aborts the crime. It takes Lady Macbeth’s steely sense of purpose to push him into the […]
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Did Mary Sidney write Shakespeare’s Plays?
What a wonderfully loaded question, hey?
Another question – What on earth has this got to do with the 12th Century and The Ravens of Dinefwr?
Hidden History Research 