Macbeth

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

It's been called "the great Shakespearean play of stage superstition and uncanniness." It's also one of Shakespeare's four major tragedies, and for more than four hundred years it's proved horrifying to audiences and captivating to scholars. And it's a perfect play for October, with witches and prophesies, murder and mayhem, and a madly ambitious would-be king and his fiendish paramour. In this special Halloween episode, host Jacke Wilson takes a look at Shakespeare's Macbeth: its origins, its inspirations, and the moments of what Dr. Johnson called Shakespeare's "touches of judgment and genius." Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglomorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:09.0	Great Glums! Great,
0:13.0	close, worthy, Cordor,
0:18.0	greater than both by the all hail hereafter.
0:29.0	thy letters have transported me on this ignorant present, and I feel now the future in the instant.
0:32.0	My dearest love, Duncan comes here tonight.
0:35.0	And when goes hence?
0:37.0	To-morrow is he purposes?
0:38.0	Oh, never shall son that morrow sea.
0:40.0	Your face, vein is as a book where men may read strange matters.
0:51.0	To beguile the time, look like the time.
0:57.0	Bear welcome in your hand, your eye, your tongue.
1:01.0	Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it. He that's coming
1:09.3	must be provided for and you will put this night's great business into my dispatch which are to all our
1:15.9	nights and days to come give solely sovereigns way and master them.
1:20.5	We will speak further.
1:22.1	Only look up clear to alter favour ever rest to me.
1:37.0	That's named Judy Dench from her unforgettable 1979 portrayal of Lady Macbeth.
1:47.0	That's where she and her husband are plotting to kill a king.
1:50.0	We are in the world of ghosts and witches and spells and mysterious nox.
1:57.0	And prophecy, and there's more nox.
2:02.0	And prophecies that turn into curses and ambition gone mad and
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