The mental undoings of Lady Macbeth and Ophelia, one power-hungry and the other pushed around, have inspired performances and interpretations far and wide. But what makes these characters so ...
In January 1912 and before an audience that almost packed the first Methodist Church in Grand Forks, Judge Guy C.H. Corliss delivered his famous lecture on Macbeth. For more than two hours, he led his ...
The lecture ended with two actors performing the scene in which Macbeth and Lady Macbeth argue about the bloody daggers in the traditional Shakespearean dialogue. It was a pleasant surprise and helped ...