mcbeth 1

To include or not to include
To me this scene truly has no meaning or purpose to the play. I don’t agree with that fact that the play needs comic relief because if a play is not a comedy then a play is not a comedy. For the fact that in the play the Macbeths need time to change into there nightgowns then adding a scene like this doesn’t hurt but in my mind it also doesn’t help the play at all either. As for contemporary jokes I don’t think that it matters if the jokes were familiar to those people during that time period I don’t believe that it really matters if the jokes are understood or not if it doesn’t belong in the play then it should not be there. But if it is because giving a job to someone who needs it then I am all for that, people have to eat and people have to make money and if I am directing the play and to help a man feed his family all that I have to do is give him a couple of lines than I am pretty sure that I would do that. I have mixed feelings about this I don’t believe that this scene makes sense or belongs in the play and I don’t think that it should be in there but if I lived in that time period and somebody needed a job and all I had to do was give him a couple of lines to make some money that he needed so guess I am saying that I would grudgingly of kept the scene in the play