The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 19.0567 Tuesday, 23 September 2008
From: Ros Barber <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 22 Sep 2008 10:40:30 +0100
Subject: 19.0560 Original Play, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, PART II
Comment: Re: SHK 19.0560 Original Play, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, PART II
John W Kennedy <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
>>Ros Barber <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
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>>Written in blank verse, adhering to the traditional Shakespearean
>>five-act structure, it is executed in the form of what would be a
>>faithful sequel.
>
>I've looked at the extract of this play, and whilst not wishing to
>rain on another author's parade, it seems to be written in free
>verse rather than blank verse. Some lines fall into iambic
>pentameter but many do not. Nevertheless, it is an interesting and
>bold idea.
>
>It's nothing of the kind; five minutes with Wikipedia could have told
>him why Shakespeare didn't write a scene in which Fleance becomes
>king of Scotland.
I gave up reading the play after two minutes, as the error of form was so
immediately obvious that I lost interest in the contents. I confess that the
epithets 'bold' and 'interesting' were my attempts to be polite, and are a
symptom of my ten-years' experience in teaching creative writing, in which I
have learnt to tread carefully on the dreams of aspiring authors. Your feedback
will no doubt be useful to him too, if he hasn't descended into a spiral of
binge drinking and self-harm.
Ros Barber
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