Macduff

... fun tension of Macbeth seems fully capable of making his own decisions, and yet even though he's aware of his fate, he steps into it wholly with, "Oh my God, who's the man who was not born of woman, who-"

Macduff.

Macduff, whose name always makes me laugh.

But, um-

Yes.

as it were, a secure autonomous discourse style reinforce security? I would say yes, because...

give sorry words, to quote Macduff in Macbeth, or should I say the Scottish drama, The Drug Tragedy, there's something about putting experience, particularly negative experience, into words in the context of a relationship.

which objectifies, externalises your distress and distances you from your distress so that you are, as it were, in your secure base, which is the relationship with the therapist and ultimately a relationship with yourself.

And from that secure base, you can, as it were, feel safe enough to explore your feelings, including your negative feelings.

You remember that after the murder is discovered, after the alarm bell is rung, she appears upon the scene wanting to know what has happened.

Macduff refuses to tell her, saying that the slightest word would murder as it fell.

At this moment Banquo comes upon the scene, and Macduff cries out to him, Our royal master is murdered! What does Lady Macbeth then say? She, in fact, makes a confession of guilt.

The weak point in the terrible tragedy is that Duncan was murdered in Macbeth's castle.

So when Lady Macbeth hears what they suppose is news to her, she cries, What? In our house! Had she been innocent? her horror of the crime would have made her forget the place the venue banquo sees through this and sees through her her expression was a light by which he saw her guilt and he answers too cruel anywhere no matter whether shakespeare delineated clown or king warrior or maiden no matter whether his characters are taken from the gutter or the throne each is a work of consummate art and when he is unnatural he is so splendid that the defect is forgotten when romeo is told of the death of juliet and thereupon makes up his mind to die upon her grave he gives a description of the shop where poison could be purchased he goes into particulars and tells of the alligators stuffed of the skins of ill-shaped fishes of the beggarly account of empty boxes of the remnants of pack-thread and old cakes of roses and while it is hardly possible to believe that under such circumstances a man would take the trouble to make an inventory of a strange kind of drug-store yet the inventory is so perfect

Read by Frances Brown.

Macduff, nobleman of Scotland.

Read by Alan Wayman.

First murderer.

Apparitions.

Read by Elizabeth Clatt.

Lady Macduff.

Read by Megan Auger.

Banquo, General of the King's Army, read by Simon Lawar.

Macduff, Nobleman of Scotland, read by John Leader, Bloomington, Illinois.

Lennox, Nobleman of Scotland, read by Adnan Mirza, Pakistan.

Ross, Nobleman of Scotland, played by Rosalind Wills.

Young Seward, Seward's son, read by Laurie Ann Walden.

Satan, an officer attending upon Macbeth, read by Paul Williams.

Son of Macduff, read by David Lawrence, Brampton, Ontario.

Lady Macbeth, read by Elizabeth Clatt.

How so? Walk me through the specific imagery there.

Well, when Duncan's body is discovered, Macduff describes it almost as a desecrated religious idol.

He says, his silver skin laced with his golden blood, and he calls it the Lord's Anointed Temple.

Okay, that's heavy.