![]() ![]() Then one November night a plot was uncovered to kill the King and blow up the Houses of Parliament on the 5 November. Already King James I had only been on the throne a few years and in that time a severe bout of the plague had ripped through the country closing the theatres. In the autumn of 1605 in the first crisp winds of winter, the country was gripped by crisis. Our programme of events is unpicking the relationship between our very real fears and anxieties and our obsession with ghost stories, hauntings and imaginary terrors. ![]() In this episode we return to the subject of our new digital festival Shakespeare and Fear. Imogen Greenberg: Hello and welcome to another episode of Such Stuff the podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe. You can download the episode transcript or read it below. It’s completely reasonable to incorporate Macbeth into a long history of tales of the supernatural, of ghost stories, of stories that chill and frighten us. And we caught up with Dr Will Tosh to discuss the uncanny resonances between today’s fearful state of affairs and the bitter winter in which Shakespeare wrote Macbeth. So, we revisited interviews with director Rob Hastie and actors Michelle Terry and Paul Ready on conjuring, superstition and catharsis. In this episode, we return to the subject of Shakespeare and Fear, unpicking the relationship between our very real fears and anxieties and our obsession with ghost stories, hauntings and imaginary terrors.Īs part of our digital festival exploring the subject, our 2018 production of Macbeth returns to the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse as Macbeth: A Conjuring, a semi-staged reading. SEASON 7 EPISODE 2 Fear, conjuring and catharsis in Macbeth ![]()
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