Manic Monday - play

Mo's word for today is PLAY. There are so many meaning for play:

a pun, make a play, to have fun, to play a hand at cards, or

to act the part of (a person or character) in a dramatic performance; portray: to play Lady Macbeth, the evil wife of Macbeth in the play of the same name by William Shakespeare.

Here's what some actresses look like playing the part of one of the most interesting female characters of Shakespeare's making.

Lady Macbeth s a character in Shakespeare's play Macbeth. While based on the real-life Queen Gruoch of Scotland, both her character and the play's events are tied very weakly to actual history.

After her husband, Macbeth of Scotland, tells her in a letter about his opportunity to become king, she tells herself that his temperament is "too full o' the milk of human kindness" (Act 1, Scene 5) for the necessary evil to kill the existing monarch, King Duncan, and so make this possible. In her eagerness, she calls for dark forces to "unsex" her and fill her with "direst cruelty."

On his return, Macbeth defers deciding on the matter, but when the king arrives, she ends his moral dilemma by manipulating him with clever arguments into committing the assassination. While Macbeth initially balks at the bloody tasks she insists that they are necessary to seize the throne; she wants him to leave everything to her and pull himself together, shocks him and questions his masculinity. Ultimately Lady Macbeth goes mad for what she's done.

I give you a very young Judi Dench playing Lady Macbeth's very famous sleepwalking scene where she tries over and over to wipe out the "damned spot" of blood that she thinks she sees on her hands. (from Wikipedia)

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