#the Scottish tragedy

[ineedhjalp]

tumblr discourse but it’s all just shakespeare

[nemeyuko]

For reference, the only person to kill him was a man not born from a woman.

[countesspetofi]

In 2010 our Mackers died of a brain tumor a couple of months after the show closed. I'm normally not a superstitious person, but I've been careful ever since, is all's I'm saying.

girl I would kill myself if I did that lol

[juniorstargazergoke1991]

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

Director: Joel Coen

Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel

[illustratus]

Macbeth and the Three Witches by Francesco Zuccarelli

[scotianostra]

It was a sad day for the people of Buckie when the Fishing boat Carinthia went missing with the loss of six men. The following report was read out in Parliament on the 29th of June 1979….

“Carinthia” sailed from Buckie at about midnight on 24–25 June bound for the fishing grounds off Noup Head, north-west of Orkney, with a crew of six on board.

At 1900 hours on Wednesday 27 June a lifebuoy marked “Carinthia” was found on the west side of Rousay, Orkney. This caused inquiries to be made by the coastguard to try to establish the ship’s whereabouts.

It was established that the vessel’s last known contact had been at 0900 hours on Tuesday 26 June, when “Carinthia” radioed the fishing vessel “Crimmond” that she was making for the Minches. Her position at this time was about 27 miles north-west of the mainland of the Orkneys. There was a north-westerly wind of force 8 at this time. The fishing vessel “Crimmond” was unable to regain radio contact with “Carinthia” an hour or two later.

Following the finding of the lifebuoy, coastguard and coastal radio stations in Scotland immediately broadcast an alert, and ships in the area started searching. The Kirkwall and Stromness life-boats 778 were launched, and an RAF Nimrod commenced searching at first light on Thursday 28 June in the Wick-Orkney-Shetlands area. The search area covered approximately 2,500 square miles, and it was hampered by low cloud in the initial stages. I regret to have to inform the House that, following a thorough search of the area, the search and rescue operation has been abandoned and the “Carinthia” must be presumed lost. “

There is very little online about this tragedy the men who perished were Eddy Lawson 30 , James Lobban 52 , Murray ‘Partan’ Lobban 21 , David Flett 24 , Richard Mair 41 & Charles Cargill 28 . five of whom came from Buckie and one from nearby Findochty, the ship nor the bodies were never recovered.

Spare a thought for the friends and family of the crew who lost their loved ones.

[magic479209]

that feeling when you bring eight tragedies along to a family friend's destination wedding trip.

i got my girlypop greatest tragedies o shakespeare and my theban plays

i regret nothing.

[trenchcroats]

"I dont support trump but i agree with his gender mutilation policy" WHAT? WHAT?????? WHAT WAS THAT?????? WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU SAY???

[thesunsethour]

saw hadestown in london on saturday and no i haven’t recovered yet

[uwmspeccoll]

Shakespeare Weekend!

Continuing our look at The works of Mr. William Shakespear: in ten volumes published in 1728 by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) and Dr. George Sewell (d. 1726) for Jacob Tonson (1655-1736), this weekend we pore over Volume Seven.

This volume contains the tragedies Antony and Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and problem play Trolius and Cressida. All four plays were published in the First Folio, however Trolius and Cressida seems to have been haphazardly squeezed in on unnumbered pages between the histories and tragedies adding to its genre identification problems. In step with Shakespeare’s other problem plays, Trolius and Cressida’s ambiguous tone bounces around creating a montage of possible intents and leaves viewers puzzled about how to relate to the characters. 

The Tragedy of Macbeth is contemporarily known as a cursed play and superstitiously often referred to as The Scottish Play. Proposed origins of the curse are rumored in Shakespeare having used real witches’ spells in the text below angering witches who then cursed the play.

Like Rowe’s earlier collection, scene divisions, stage directions, dramatis personae, and full-page engravings by either French artist Louis Du Guernier (1677-1716) or Englishman Paul Fourdrinier (1698-1758) precede each play.  

Pope’s editions of Shakespeare were the first attempted to collate all previous publications. He consulted twenty-seven early quartos restoring passages that had been out of print for almost a century while simultaneously removing about 1,560 lines of material that didn’t appeal to him. Some of those lines were degraded to the bottom of the page with his other editorial notes.  

View more Shakespeare Weekend posts. 

-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

[ineedhjalp]

we simp

[ardenrosegarden]

I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er.

[aq2003]

rules: without naming them, post a gif from ten of your favorite films, then tag ten people to do the same! tagged by @nastasya--filippovna

tagging: uhhh @g1ngerbeer @ironmanstan @variousqueerthings and anyone else who wants to do this

[eclecticpjf]

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[crazyw3irdo]

if you made a hamlet uquiz i would owe you my soul

honestly i’d have to think way harder about that one lol r&j comes naturally to me cause i’ve read it dozens of times whereas hamlet i’ve read like. twice maybe. not fully writing off the idea but i’d just have to think of something more…. besides i couldn’t top rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead so doing the same free will type stuff would just be boring-

[scotianostra]

March 17th 1979 saw a collapse in the Penmanshiel Tunnel near Grantshouse Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders, two men tragically lost their lives.

Shortly before 3:45 a.m. on 17 March 1979, the duty Railway Works Inspector noticed some small pieces of rock flaking away from the tunnel wall, approximately 90 metres from the southern entrance, He decided that it would be wise to shore up the affected piece of the tunnel and was making his way towards the site office to arrange this when he heard the sound of the tunnel collapsing behind him.

It is estimated that approximately 20 metres of the tunnel arch collapsed, with the resultant rock fall filling 30 metres of the tunnel from floor to roof and totally enveloping a dumper truck and a JCB, along with the two men operating them. Despite efforts to get to the men further falling rock prevented this.

The thirteen other people working inside the tunnel at the time of the collapse were able to escape successfully, but despite the efforts of rescuers (including a specialised mine rescue team) it was not possible to reach the two operators.

What must be more heart-breaking for the families of the two men, Gordon Turnbull and Peter Fowler is that it was deemed too dangerous to try and recover the bodies and the tunnel was sealed and abandoned their remains left buried where they perished.

A report into the collapse could not reach a conclusion on the overall cause due to the abandonment. However, geotechnical investigations of the area surrounding the tunnel found evidence suggesting fracturing of rock overlaying the tunnel and, in particular, an anticlinal structure of shattered and sheared rock intersecting the line of the tunnel in close proximity to the area of the collapse.

The report accordingly concluded that the collapse was likely to be the result of degeneration of the fractured rock overlying the tunnel in the end it stated that as the conditions leading to the collapse could not reasonably be foreseen—there were no grounds for finding any individual responsible for the accident.

Despite the enquiry findings British Railways were fined £10,000 "having failed to ensure that persons in the tunnel were not exposed to the risk of personal injury by the collapse of part of the [tunnel] structure", they did not contest the case pleading guilty to the charges.

A memorial stands directly over the point of the rock fall in tribute to Gordon and Peter, the 3-sided Obelisk bares a plaque dedicated to each of the men, and the 3rd side bares the cross, with the memorial constructed from rock that had fallen that night.

Afterwards the east coast rail line was diverted, a cutting was made, which also meant the A1 road nearby had to be diverted.