Tag Archives: Macbeth

This dread butcher and his fiend like queen

Posted on July 1, 2016 by henry tapper

  My blog yesterday likened the mail between Sarah Vine and Michael Gove  to Lady Macbeth winding up her husband to kill the King. For Duncan (or better Banquo) read Boris – though I had no prescience that but minutes after I published … Continue reading →

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I like Shakespeare- naturally

Posted on April 23, 2016 by henry tapper

  It’s Shakespeare’s 400th deathday. Shakespeare has been my touchstone since I read Macbeth for (what was then) O level. I think I have read every play once and seen all but two of the plays he definitely wrote. My … Continue reading →

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