LINKTV Deutsche Welle Journal March 12, 2013
Macbeth is the shortest of shakespeares dramas and has this swiftest tempo. Everything in this play happens very fast. Once the plays movement begins, and it does at once, it never slackens. Each event, each episode of the plot falls on the heels of its predecessor. There are no pauses, such, for example, as the gravedigger scene in hamlet. No comic relief, with the possible exception of the drunken porter in that almost unbearably tense scene of the knocking at the gate. Shakespeare is all business here, a fact that is further intensified in our shortened television version. In great part, th...