Tuesday, February 21, 2012

What is the easiest way to approach reading Macbeth?

In some ways it is an easy question, one should approach
the play as a dramatic act.  It was not written to be read like a novel, and it is
extremely difficult to approach that way.  Though I find it interesting to study the
text of Hamlet or Macbeth or Othello from a literary standpoint, for most people not
extremely familiar with the language, seeing it acted out is likely far more interesting
and also easier to understand.


Of course having seen the
play, it can be rewarding to go back and look more closely at the passages that are
particularly interesting or perhaps passages that were difficult to
understand.


The language of Shakespeare's plays is so
different from that of our every day lives, it is important to remember that it was a
drama to be acted first and as such this is the easiest way to approach
it.

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