MACBETH

Evening Star, Issue 15554, 25 July 1914, Page 3

MACBETH

LECTURE BY THE REV. A. WYNNE THOMAS. The Rev. A. Wynne Thomas repeated I his lecture on 'Macbeth' last night in the Y.M.G'.A. Hall, and it proved to be not a whit less interesting than on tho former occasion. Mr T. W. Whitson was in the chair, and there was a fairly large audience. Mr Thomas began by quoting Ruskin's statement that there was scarcely a .play of Shakespeare's that did not contain portraits of a perfect woman. Whenever a redemption was brought about in his dramas it was due to the wit, the virtue, or the wisdom of a woman. Macbeth, said Mr Thomas, was the one exception to that rule. There was not only not a perfect woman therein, but it was full of evil, and all tha bad results unfolded in tho tragedy were brought about by the malign influence of Lady Macebth. Mr Thomas continued upon much tho same lines as in his first lecture, the lesson to be learned being that, evil begets evil, sin follows sin. lie follows lie, murder follows murder ; that a mau could never, once he had entered upon an evil course, know bow far he would have to go. Mr Thomas was heartily applauded at the close of the lecture, and was accorded a vote of thanks on the motion of Mr J. Gray, seconded by Mr Mitchell. Miss Scott played a piano solo before the lecture was delivered.