Hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to part two of my discussion with Harry all about Macbeth.

Last time we ended off, we were actually just concluding talking about the first act of this five-part play.

One of Shakespeare's shortest.

Yeah, one of Shakespeare's shortest tragedy, because, well, there was simply so much to say about it.

And, you know, a lot of the historical context with James I first as well, a lot to say about just the introduction of the witches and the supernatural.

And I believe the discussion where we last left off, we were talking about the fact that King Duncan is now in Macbeth's castle.

He now has the king in his midst. And despite all of the, you know, Macbeth goes through it and he

rationalises in his head, he weighs up the pros and cons of both of the things. And it's like, you know,

well, he's a very gracious king. He gives to me very generously. I'm in his trust. He's also a guest

under my roof and, you know and all these sorts of things.

However, I am an ambitious man and my wife really likes it when I'm an ambitious man.

If I'm not an ambitious man, she threatens my, she makes jokes about my manhood.

Stephen Greenblatt, actually, in the Norton

completed edition that sits on my desk. He had a wonderful way of describing Lady Macbeth's

tactics, which was just to say she employs sexual terrorism against Macbeth.

As many women do. Well, that's interesting

because I want to bring up something.

So since the last discussion

that we had on it,

I have since watched

a film that came highly recommended,

which was the 2015 Macbeth adaptation

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