Macbeth
In Our Time: Culture
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The Deed Without Nouns
Why do some of the characters struggle to be explicit at all? That's a really great question, i think, at the heart of the play. We we keep hearing pronouns without nouns. A this, this, the deed without a name is is what macbeth accuses the witches of when he goes back to them. And it its really striking how the sort of, the magical power of words, i guess, that comes back to the witches and to spells,. The kind of performative language which enacts rather than represents.
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