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…
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.
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.
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.
Probably why I end up reading almost all my books more than once.