Macbeth (Norton Critical Editions)
The were showing Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood on TV the other night. That's the master's adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth. I thought about watching it, but then decided against it. My Japanese is good enough to follow movies with contemporary settings, but as Throne is set in medieval Japan I was pretty sure I'd get lost. It did get me thinking about Macbeth, though, so I took it down from the shelf and gave it a reread. What can one say about Shakespeare except that it was, as expected, good fun. Compelling characters, ideas, action, and of course exquisite language: Macbeth, like most of Shakespeare, has it all.
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