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Macbeth
In Our Time
The Magical Power of Words in a Play
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, the regicide, the murder of duncan that's presented as a deed so unthinkable that it can't be articulated or mustn't be articulated. A this, this, the deed without a name, is is what macbeth accuses the witches of when he goes back to them. And it's really striking how the sort of, the magical power of words, i guess, that comes back to the witches and to spells, and to the kind of performative language which enacts rather than represents.
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