Re: MacBeth

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 05:33:57 +0100 (BST)


Peter Metcalfe:

> The only evidence for [MacBeth's] goodness is that he made a prilgimage
> to Rome and returned during his reign without being deposed in
> his absense.

Let me reduce my claim to "no evidence for his actual historical badness", then. Basically Shakespeare did the same sort of Job on him as on Richard III, and for much the same reasons.

> Duncan's Pages Harrek the Berserk & Gunda the Guilty

Now there's an image-and-a-half.

Slainte,
Alex.


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