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134: Macbeth

Sophomore Lit

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Lady Macbeth Is Going Crazy at the Drop of a Hat

Lady Macbeth starts going crazy at the drop of a hat it's not like Ophelia kind of languishing on and on from sequence to sequence or whatever. The other thing that is so abbreviated about this play is at the very end when Macduff faces Macbeth down and he says hey guess what I'm a Caesarean child so you're going to die they run off stage He comes back with Macbeth's head and then the play is over, there's no date amount at all. American theatre can be so literal like if you turn on a faucet there better be real water running out from the faucet on stage the audience has

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