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Friday, April 21, 2023

IS THIS A DAGGER: Macbeth by William Shakespeare-John Tognolini


I was sixteen when I saw Macbeth with Roman Polanski's 1971 film Macbeth in a cinema in Footscray, in Melbourne, on an excursion with Brunswick High School in 1975. I was in Form Five today's Year Eleven. It was the first time I was exposed to Shakespeare. Reading Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room by Jonathan Bate. I found out that Bate was only 16 when he saw it in England. Synopsis Macbeth speaks this famous soliloquy when he is taken over by his guilt and growing insanity for killing Duncan. His imagination brings forth the picture of a dagger in front of him, which symbolizes the impending murder. Macbeth has made his decision to kill the King and take the crown as his own.  
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I’ve been a political activist for over fifty years in the Union and Socialist Movement. I’m a member of NSW Socialists. I've retired as High School Teacher and returning to Journalism & Documentary Making.. My educational qualifications are; Honours Degree in Communications, University of Technology, Sydney, 1994, Diploma of Education Secondary University of Western Sydney, 2000.
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