By happy, horrified tradition, theater folk hesitate to name a certain Shakespeare play, for fear bad things will then happen. A noted psychology study that (albeit not being a theatrical endeavor) did explicitly name that play now seems to have had something bad happen. A new study brings (and is!) the bad news: “Out, Damned […]
Tag: MacBeth
On the spot: The Macbeth Effect
Some psychologists are beginning to feel the same sense of “cursedness” about studying “The MacBeth Effect” that some actors have about performing Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth” — the sense that things can all too easily go wrong. The BPS Research Digest blog writes:: Not so easy to spot: A failure to replicate the Macbeth Effect across […]
MacBeth and the flying Christmas tree
Thirty-two model-rocket engines power a Christmas tree. (Thanks to BoingBoing for bringing this to our attention.) It’s evocative, as so many things are, of MacBeth’s words in act 5, scene 5 of the Shakespeare play: ‘Fear not, till Birnam wood Do come to Dunsinane:’ and now a wood Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out! […]