# Inspired by Rastahomie, another very mild rant **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 1, 2001, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspired-by-rastahomie-another-very-mild-rant/67224 "2001-06-01T16:02:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2001, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspired-by-rastahomie-another-very-mild-rant/67224/61 "2001-06-02T23:53:13Z")
Amok: I think MacBeth is far from Shakespeare’s most fantastic (in the sense of containing fantasy elements). Both The Tempest (which features a wizard and several non-humans as major characters) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (in which half the cast are faeries) have many more fantasy elements than MacBeth’s three witches and a questionable ghost (is Banquo really a spirit, or just a guilty conscience?). Although it does have a nifty prophecy, which is standard issue for heroic fantasy… Wow, lookit all them paranthesis! ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2001, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspired-by-rastahomie-another-very-mild-rant/67224/62 "2001-06-02T23:57:27Z")
Well thanks everyone! It’s confirmed. I’m dumb and I’ve got a lot of reading to do! For what it’s worth, I’m still going to file Shakespeare under British Drama on my bookshelf 😃 I’ve collected up all of your reccommendations and treasured them away in my heart. When I finish “Something Under The Bed Is Drooling, A Calvin and Hobbes Collection” for the seventieth time, maybe I’ll get to one or two of them. margaret atwood is nobody’s baby 😛 jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![Amok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Amok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amok)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspired-by-rastahomie-another-very-mild-rant/67224/63 "2001-06-03T03:09:21Z")
**Nimone** , I’ll agree with that, but in my defense, I actually said that _Macbeth_ was the most fantastic of Shakespeare’s **dramas**. _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_ is, of course, a commedy, and _The Tempest_ is a romance or a comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Amok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Amok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amok)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspired-by-rastahomie-another-very-mild-rant/67224/64 "2001-06-03T03:12:05Z")
Err, make that **Nimune**. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspired-by-rastahomie-another-very-mild-rant/67224/65 "2001-06-03T05:01:46Z")
Well, from now on make that “Miller.” ---
**Author:** ![Amedeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@Amedeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amedeus)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspired-by-rastahomie-another-very-mild-rant/67224/66 "2001-06-03T09:20:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Darwin’s Finch > I will read a line and diverge off on my own tangent, only to realize that I’ve continued to ‘read’ several pages and can’t remember a darn thing that happened during that time! So, I wind up having to re-read passages more than once. Hehe, this happens to me sometimes, I just keep going, figure out what happened, and allow myself the excuse to re-read the book. 🙂 Probably why I end up reading almost all my books more than once. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspired-by-rastahomie-another-very-mild-rant/67224.md?page=3)