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April 26,2025
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First read of Shakespeare was about two years ago, I saw a book in the school's library has plenty of his most popular plays in Arabic. I saw that most of them, if not all, were magical plays. So I spent with him time full of strange events and witches things.

Macbeth was different from what I read to him earlier, it's darker and more tragic.
This play is based on two prophecies, which control the all events of the play. It shows the side of human endless greed, and psychological conflicts accompanying it.
The psychological interpretations of the play increased its beauty to me.

Your letter has taken me from present to future glory in a moment.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, day follows day with slow and tired steps until time ends. And all our days have shown fools the way to death, when all things end in dust. Blow out the candle life's shadow disappears. The shadow of an actor who, for an hour, tries to pretend that what he does is real. And then his voice is heard no more. A man's life is like a story told badly by a fool, whose shouts and strong words make it seem important. But it means nothing.
April 26,2025
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"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!"


i have no idea how to even begin to review this absolute masterpiece. definitely my favourite of shakespeare's, although that may change when i read hamlet, we shall see (i've seen it performed but not read it)

as i said in my updates, i've always thought the presence of the witches and the cadence of the dialogue give macbeth the aura of a nightmare fairy tale, like a fairy tale of the unseelie court. the winter's tale seems to be its rectification, a play that ends in tragedy but ends with (mostly) happiness, with faint allusions to the supernatural woven in (not nearly so much as macbeth, possibly because "unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles" and the winter's tale ends on the resolution of troubles rather than their culmination.)

this is turning into a mini, rather incoherent ramble about how much i love shakespeare and the possible interlinking of plays so i'd better conclude it now before veer too much off topic, lol.
April 26,2025
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Para empezar diré que no siendo un fan de Shakespeare pues me desilusionó con algunas obras, encontré que Macbeth era aún superior a lo que había escuchado.
Recuerdo que alguna vez leí que era una muy buena obra, y para mí en lo personal no me llama la atención tanto ni del rey, o de la esposa de Macbeth y su ambición sin límites, ni las brujas que aparecen y son algo novedoso en el teatro de esa época; sino más bien la tremenda resolución de Macbeth cuando toma como dictador las riendas del estado y posteriormente su gran valentía ante su trágico destino, incluso sabiendo ya lo que estaba escrito sobre sí mismo.
Cada vez que recuerdo Macbeth me viene a la mente la ambición negra pero también el arrojo sin límites.
En mi opinión es la mejor tragedia de Shakespeare.
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