Charmed Life

Saw MacBeth tonight, done by Babes With Blades, an all female troupe.

So all the male parts were played by females, which is the reverse of the custom of the Elizabethan stage, where female parts were played by males (boys, it is said.)

Great fun!

Marsha and I were talking about the way Shakespeare's verbiage is so cliche-ridden. You could almost call him cliche-kespeare. Except, you know, he had never heard them before - he was making them up. Like "vaulting ambition" and "charmed life".

His catchy phrases, today's cliches,
are scattered like gems through his plays.