Ghosts Were People Too
Where do ghosts dwell? It seems just about everywhere: television, film, photography, theater, video games, folk songs, and even your family vacations. Oh the humanties!
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19 - Macbeth Part 2: Red-Handed, Ghosts and Guilt (opens the original)
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Banquo! Lady Macbeth! Shakesqueer! The Monster's Body Is a Cultural Body ! Charles Manson! Playboy! Join us for Macbeth , Part 2, in which we explore changing beliefs about ghosts from the ancient world to Shakespeare's England and discuss how audiences, past and present, might understand Banquo's ghost. From there, we turn to Lady Macbeth's fractured experience of guilt and time before considering the many ways filmmakers have reimagined the play to reflect the anxieties of their own historical
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