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We read Macbeth in high school, but they dragged it out over a whole year. It was so painful!
LOL. I had read it before we were taught it in school.
One of the three spirits is described as "An armed head" and the teacher was like "Yeah, nobody really knows what that description means, is a head in a helmet or what it's supposed to be..."
So I raised my hand... "I hope I'm not giving away the ending or anything, but Macbeth is beheaded at the end... it's an arm holding up a severed head. Each spirit is foreshadowing what's going to happen. Armed head, bloody child, king holding a tree."
At my high school we had a teacher who had an advanced degree in Shakespeare studies, and she would teach a different play every quarter. They were great classes, but a single quarter was plenty of time for a very comprehensive look at each play. I can't imagine stretching it out over an entire year and have it be anything but absolutely tedious.
Theatre should be seen instead of (or at least as well as) read IMO. I bet if you'd been taken to see a decent production first you'd have got a lot more out of reading it later.
Yeah absolutely.
That sucks. Macbeth rules so hard. We did it over a couple weeks in school and it was awesome.