The professor's name should be front and center on this series of lectures.

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It starts at 5:46

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your spelling, your excellency of your reading and writing, your figure of speech, compositions and your literacy especially your inflection and literature.

LMAO "purifying ritual that involved turning around three times and quoting something from The Merchant of Venice"

very impressive, excellent and brilliant. need to see it for several times more in order to learn some more. well done on your literacy lectures. she's very great on all of that.

''the two spent swimmers'' could also stand for the battle taking place in macbeth's mind

Best one I have ever known in terms of teaching Shakespeare

I started this series after reading King Lear on my own, hoping to find an exploration/explanation of themes and language, and three lectures in I'm hooked! These classes are a great motivation for me to read the rest of Shakespeare's plays!

I wish this woman had been one of my English Lit. professors, I listen to her lectures and then read, or re-read, the play. I've never seen a production of Macbeth with normal, attractive women playing the witches but I would love to, it would be much braver and more interesting, not to mention less misogynistic, than the default portrayal of them as hags!

Thank so much this lecture has helped me a lot in teaching the play. i'm from Egypt

I recommend her book "Shakespeare After All" as a good reference.

I may be wrong, but l was under the impression that the film Roman Pokanski made, following the murder of his wife, and her unborn child, was a screen adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel, Tess Of The Derbevilles , with Natassia Kinsky in the lead role. Like, he was trying to move away from the horror of all that had just happened in his own life, with a movie filled with light, golden sunshine, romantic etc. Also, I have heard the horrible theory that, he actually instigated the murder himself, on account of discovering that his wife was having an affair with her hairdresser, who was also killed, and she was carrying his baby. Anyway, I think her lectures are really engaging. She seems very knowledgeable, and thorough, on the subject. A couple of points about the play. At the beginning, is it not the case that Lady Macbeth summons up the witches, in the first place, herself. Plus, her own mind/sanity starts to unravel, because she witnesses how negatively, and obsessively, the murder has started to affect his mental state. In other words, she starts to lose it, having unwittingly unleashed the dark side of her husband. I have always loved Macbeth. Noone in the play seems to have the slightest idea what the hell is going on, and half the time, nor do we, the audience! 🌚

can someone put in a time stamp for the porter scene part of this lecture

How do you interpret that Macbeth has got a letter, which would have been considered traitorous, to Lady Macbeth? It contains knowledge about the witches but not about the King's visit. It does not tell of Banquo's prophesies

Why doesn't Macbeth become King Macbeth?? Because the play was written for King James I!!! Being a usurper I do not believe that Macbeth could be acknowledged as King. Even in the play servants an henchmen do not always address him with a royal title

Many of her inflections are similar to Martha Stewart.

I would really, really like to have the closing assignment

Quotes Hamlet at the end. Drops mic 🙌

im really pissed theres no hamlet, im trying to read ulysses

2 hrs isn't nearly long enough, wish there's a part 2

so... is thee an analogy between the sailor & McB?

Equivocate ...... it is what Shakespeare does throughout the play

Does anyone know what book she uses for this lecture? (Or which has the best commentary??)

Start 5:45

What's the lecturer's name? She's very interesting to listen to

Great professor. Whatever happened to the US that It has Let college professors end up living on their cars?

are the witches also ''unsexed'' creautures?

Macduff acts "unmanly". Note .... he does not arrest the guards

what's the name of this teacher? and which book edition is she using?

55:53 after the break

can lady macbeth be seen as the 4th witch?

"They are Witches"

The students are impressive. Graduates?

Ngaio Marsh is a New Zealander.

*Greek Mythology aye?*

Duncan was not "Duncan" in the play. The name of that role is "King"! Read the First Folio

54:00 1:33:00

Brilliant,but what is she doing with her tongue and fingers??

I see supernaturalism in many plays of Shakespeare. Did he believe in supernaturalism?

Cawdor lives?? How does Macbeth know this?? Why does Macbeth or Banquo not ask "Is he dead??" or "Did he die??"

Witches: 13:34

69k views, nice

She's marvelous but she's wrong (a tiny point) about the Thane of Cawdor. He is MacDonwald (MacDonald). Sinel is the name of the previous Thane of Glamis. Macbeth says so. Also: clearly, just as Duncan regrets his mistake about MacDonwald, he promptly makes the same mistake about Macbeth. HE doesn't learn from his mistake! But Malcolm DOES learn -- when Macduff comes to him to betray Macbeth, he carefully tests Macduff's attitude before he agrees to work with him.

People and happened..

Lady Macbeth "Unsex me!" cried the actress Down there upon the stage playing quite the villainess she summoned manly rage Distant from her mother's heart her maidenhood obscured In the aftermath of murder not woman's love endures? "Out spots out" quoth she that her guilt might flee Into her womb convey The blight of viel sterility where murder will invade Three sisters weird there sporting beards Like harpies from the moon Assassin's bearing magic confect their witches brew

Fucking Jesus. For those of you that don't feel like listening to erroneous chatter, I have placed a time stamp where the video actually begins below. 5:45

Doubtful it stood ...... Macbeth was not given a large army. The Irish Mercenaries .... how did a petty Lord pay for these mercenaries. Birth Fantasy ...... a woeful joke. Unseemed him from the nave to chops .... can't be done Some say nave should be 'nape' .... I say Macdonwald was held down and unseemed ..... or disemboweled .... from nave to chops.

Professor Marjorie Garber

"Nearest way" ..... they already have a pact to overthrow Duncan, but Macbeth's way is more convoluted.

58:31

Didn't really like this lecture to be honest. It felt a little uncomfortable, like she's testing us rather than teaching us; there were moments I didn't really understand, and while she opened my eyes to things like the chestnut story being an analogy, she never fully made the connections I needed to understand

ive never been more bored

The witches are not naturally bearded ..... the change appearance for the mortals Read the play .... the witches do an enchantment immediately after they hear Macbeth and Banquo approaching and prior to Macbeth and Banquo entering the stage.

She misspelled "weird."

wellllll drtimmytime, to really be a good literately proficiently philosophically originally good theatrical story telling on drama, you going to need to know your English as of grammar, your sparkling and your literacy.

Macbeth was written by Shakespeare and he wrote under great duress .... forced by James to write a play that lied about history. He actually wrote about himself three times in the play Master of the Tiger The Hoarding Farmer The Poor Player.

Charles Manson was not involved in the murders, he was a guru to those involved, but really, he just made a good boogeyman to blame because such nice American children from nice homes could not possibly have done the evil savage crimes without being brain washed.

One can always call upon a scholar to analyse the heart and soul out of art. Rather than ask the students to imagine the excitement of the Elizabethan playgoers upon seeing a new play, she seems to be stuck in explaining the meaning of an archaic word and phrase. As if it matters. Shakespeare's audience was only interested in the thrilling and tragic story of a man and a woman destroyed by vaulting ambition. A production is meant to be viewed with emotion and soul, If a phrase or a word is unfamiliar, look it up afterwards like the English do. Feel first, analyse afterwards is always my advice.

Isn't it evident that scenes have been removed (deliberately) at the start of the play!!!??? Read Bradley

Macduff comes to wake the King. Lennox sees Macduff and tags along. Read the play

The witches are not in Macbeth's mind .... they are real. Banquo sees them too. The witches are not Fates. The witches answer to Hecate and the Fates do not answer to Hecate.

She spelt weird wrong...

How does she seriously spell weird wrong

God awful!

Read history ...... Lady Macbeth has had a child, and he actually succeeded Macbeth. If you do not understand the dashing of the brains of the child, one day you may find out.

Disjointed lecture with lots of dull student input and political feminism. There is much better stuff on you tube