Judi Dench ... Lady Macbeth
Denyse Alexander ... Gentlewoman
John Woodnutt ... Doctor
from the 1979 TV version of the Trevor Nunn production by the Royal Shakespeare Company
from "Shakespeare'...
Judi Dench ... Lady Macbeth Denyse Alexander ... Gentlewoman John Woodnutt ... Doctor
from the 1979 TV version of the Trevor Nunn production by the Royal Shakespeare Company
from "Shakespeare's Work" (1847) by Gulian Crommelin Verplanck:
It was, I believe, Madame de Staël, who said, somewhat extravagantly, that the smell is the most poetical of the senses. It is true that the more agreeable associations of this sense are fertile in pleasing suggestions of placid, rural beauty, and gentle pleasures. Shakespeare, Spencer, Ariosto, and Tasso abound in such allusions.
Milton, especially, who luxuriates in every variety of "odorous sweets" and "grateful smells", delighted sometimes to dwell on the "sweets of groves and fields", the native perfumes of his own England--"The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or Dairy"-- and sometimes pleasing his imagination with the "gentle gales" laden with "balmy spoils" of the East; and breathing--"Sabean odours from the spicy shores of Araby the blest".
But the smell has never been successfully used as a means of impressing the imagination with terror, pity, or any of the deeper emotions, except in this dreadful sleep-walking scene of the gulty Queen, and in one parallel scene of the Greek drama, as wildly terrible as this. It is that passage of the 'Agamemnon' of Aeschylus, where the captive prophetess, Cassandra, wrapt in visionary inspiration, scents first the smell of blood, and then the vapours of the tomb breathing from the palace of Atrides, as ominous of his apporaching murder.
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I am sorry to here that dude, although I love Shakespeare, I believe there are some teachers out there that "misuse" his works. Shakespeare was never meant to be read, only seen on the stage. I am lucky to volunteer for a Shakespearean acting company and watch the actually play on stage. Whenever I start reading a new play, I have to read it very slowly at first, then listen to a recording and if possible watch a movie jus to fully understand.
english teachers make shakespeare out to be a dull scholar though.... you know he was a stoner who slept his way round london (men and women) and wrote a play if he got a bit skint.... just thought i'd mention that
shakespeare didnt make you fail english.... its the teacher who wouldnt let you do the modern version....
@surfdude1st Don't panic. There are some words not used now but they are mostly explained somewhere in school texts. The word order may differ from modern english but you can tune into that after a while. The main thing is to learn the story,plot ,and about the characters. Then you will understand the language more. Try children's versions of the story if desperate e.g "Lamb's tales from Shakespeare" to start with.
you are an idiot with no intelligence rap? you think Shakesphear would want his master piece rapped? I think that rap music is only as good as to be put in toilets to cover the sound of shit balls falling in to the toilet
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shakespeare didnt make you fail english.... its the teacher who wouldnt let you do the modern version....