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Originally Posted by DNSB
I have to wonder about anyone who managed to get out of high school without having noticed that Romeo & Juliet was a tragedy.
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I just read a funny James Thurber story,
The Macbeth Murder Mystery. This synopsis is kinda crummy, surprising from The New Yorker. But you get the idea anyway:
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The writer meet an American lady while he is staying at a hotel in the English lake country. She tells him she purchased a Penguin book called "The Tragedy of Macbeth", thinking it was a detective story, and was chagrined to find it was a Shakespeare play. She read it us there was nothing else to read, one night. She says that the real murderer was Duncan, not Macbeth or Lady Macbeth. The writer is amazed. He reads the play again himself but comes up with another solution.
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