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Article: Macbeth. (Public Theater, New York City)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- February 19, 1990
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Macbeth
I have never much liked Macbeth. Its tragic leads have nothing to recommend them but their eloquence. Both are unrelievedly wicked, without even Richard 111's wit or political horse sense. They inhabit a world that is, for Shakespeare, singularly colorless. The minor characters get involved in the plot only as victims or, finally, as revengers. The supernatural element is sophomoric, an excuse for special effects. The Christopher Plummer/Glenda Jackson production that appeared on Broadway in the spring of 1988 confirmed for me my distaste for the play; it was listless, overproduced and as perfunctory as a Latin high mass performed by a drowsy priest.
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