If He Can, Above All, to His Own Self Be True
Charles IsherwoodMarch 3, 2010: What if Shakespeare had never written “Macbeth”? Well, looking on the bright side, many would have escaped the plague of bad luck that ostensibly attends productions of “the Scottish play,” as it is referred to by theatrical folk to keep the fabled ill fortune at bay. And I suspect that Kelsey Grammer and Alec Baldwin, to name just two fine actors who have belly-flopped in the title role in New York, could warm to a fantasy of the Scottish play being scotched at birth, as it were.
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