When shall we three meet again,
\nIn thunder, lightning or in rain?<\/p>\n
Macbeth<\/em>, Shakespeare<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n I studied this play twice in high school (two different schools) and never understood the political side.\u00a0 Only the witch rhymes stayed with me;\u00a0 my friend and I often cited them at relevant moments, especially when cooking: In recent years I’ve tutored students who were writing about Macbeth,<\/em> and so… I forced myself to read it to the point of understanding.<\/p>\n Right now I’m translating a French fairy tale in which the words chats<\/em> and chaudi\u00e8re<\/em> evoke my\u00a0Macbeth<\/em> textbook cover with its etching of three hags on a bleak plain waiting for the cauldron to boil.\u00a0 But while in Shakespeare’s cauldron there boils the fillet of a fenny snake, in the French fairy tale cauldron there is nought but milk.\u00a0 For the cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning or in rain? Macbeth, Shakespeare ***** I studied this play twice in high school (two different schools) and never understood the political side.\u00a0 Only the witch rhymes stayed with me;\u00a0 my friend and I often cited them at relevant moments, especially when cooking: Double, double, toil … <\/p>\n
\nDouble, double, toil and trouble:\u00a0 Fire, burn;\u00a0 and cauldron, bubble.<\/p>\n