“MACBETH”
The Dunedin Shakespeare Club will present a reading of “ Macbeth " in the Concert Chamber on Thursday. Like most Shakespearian tragedies, “ Macbeth ” is the tragedy of an obsession. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth put “ the golden round ” before honour, humanity, and principle, and reap a dreadful reward. Of the murder scene Masefield says, “ You are here in the presence of the greatest mood in modern poetry: a mood in which Shakespeare moved four times, but never in such ecstasy of power.” The scene moves with a relentless and swift intensity to its climax. The cast includes some of the club's strongest readers in Messrs J. W. Hayward H. Chapman, W. G. Clayton, H. Cohen, D. E. Dali, M. Joel, L. Francis, and r’. G. Osborn, Miss M. Randle, Mesdames L. Griffiths, E. J. Murray, and G. S. Thomson, and Misses H. Smtih and E. Abbott. .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26778, 22 May 1948, Page 9
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144“MACBETH” Otago Daily Times, Issue 26778, 22 May 1948, Page 9
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