[HN Gopher] How many children had Lady Macbeth?
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How many children had Lady Macbeth?
Author : silt
Score : 10 points
Date : 2024-07-23 19:40 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| gumby wrote:
| > Shakespeare's plays, according to Knights, were first and
| foremost "dramatic poems," works of literary art unified through
| metaphor and language, rather than a record of interactions
| between characters. To treat Macbeth as the final episode in the
| life of Macbeth was to confuse literature and history, to take
| the figures of drama for real persons, with biographies that
| reached back before the beginning of the play and, if they
| survived, into its imaginary future.
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| While I'll agree with Knights that "How many children" is an
| absurd and pointless question, I otherwise disagree with his
| position.
|
| For example, a King of Scotland (well, Alba) named Macbeth was a
| historical figure and people watching the play would know this.
| It doesn't make _Macbeth_ one of the historical plays, but it 's
| a deliberate call out to context (else he could have named the
| character "King Bob", as he did with the characters Romeo and
| Juliet, or King Lear).
|
| Both art and discourse are full of such, often not even
| deliberately invoked by the speaker or author. We just swim in
| multiple contexts simultaneously.
| readthenotes1 wrote:
| Only one child grew up and birthed Lady Macbeth.
|
| I have no idea how many children conned Lady Macbeth, though, if
| that's what the question was.
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