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macbeth is shakespeare’s funniest tragedy and mr. macbeth is the funniest character in macbeth. he listens to these creepy old women tell him he’s gonna be king and IMMEDIATELY decides the only thing he can POSSIBLY do is kill a guy and then he waffles about it for a full act and finally comes to the conclusion that it’s morally wrong and then HE DOES IT ANYWAY and his entire fucking life falls apart with an inevitability that is genuinely hilarious

butchhamlet

the other exceedingly funny thing is that he doesn’t even cover his ass that well like??? sure the morning right after the murder he gets away with it but even then he almost straight fucks it by killing the guys he framed. and then within a few months everyone in scotland independently comes to the conclusion that he did it ANYWAY because like. WHO else would it have been

butchhamlet

funniest moments in macbeth:

“o? by whom?” (a classic)

“what, you egg” (also a classic)

“twas a rough night”

macduff telling lady macbeth he can’t say what happened because she’s a woman and then spinning around and IMMEDIATELY telling banquo within FULL earshot of ladymac

“that i did… kill them… 👉👈”

macbeth giving the whole “blood will have blood” speech and then going “…….what time is it”

the witches, whom we’ve just seen making a potion of baby parts, saying “something wicked” about macbeth. your king steps onto the scene and these literal actual witches go “oh, bitch? a bitch?”

malcolm’s I Fuck Too Much Speech

and then. when he takes it back. he says “why are you silent?” which implies macduff is just. sitting there.

“take thy face hence”

macbeth absolutely wrecking young siward’s shit and then just going “thou wast born of woman” to his corpse

butchhamlet

in honor of this post getting an absurd and terrifying amount of notes here are my favorite tags

also, for those of you asking to see macbeth as a dark comedy: i haven’t seen a production specifically billed as such but definitely the funniest macbeth i’ve seen is the folger 2008 one which, by the way, is free on youtube! it definitely leans into the horror aspect but it also is just. laugh-out-loud funny sometimes like these actors know how to punctuate their lines to get at that absurd humor! and i’ve watched it twice in like two months

antique-scarecrow

was anyone gonna tell me Macbeth was a comedy or was i supposed to read that here myself?

downthegenderriver

Also the bit where Macduff kid is getting murdered and he goes “oh, you’ve killed me” *dies* like what a mood

jackironsides

It’s in the nature of good storytelling that you have genuine comedy encompassed in a tragedy and, on the flip side, genuine tragedy encompassed in comedies. Take a look at Much Ado About Nothing: plenty of tragic tropes (it shares whole story beats with Romeo and Juliet), but since the good end happily and the bad unhappily, it’s a comedy.

darkcommet

After hearing ‘none of woman born’ and Macbeth being like, “Awwww fuck yeah! I’m a super freak and no one can touch me” but him still going through a moral crisis will never not be a little funny to me.

angstandhappiness

LMAO 😂

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spacedewey

Call me old fashioned, but I think the president saying "a whole civilization will die tonight" is the part where he should be deposed immediately.

kosmogrl

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orangepenguino

(nyt)

No. I'm fine, really. I'm just ugly crying about Carroll crater. A bright spot on the far side of the moon. I'm fine. I'll stop crying eventually.

two-bees-poetry

so soft it hurts

fabletree

god i love poetry

colleybri

I love it when I stumble across something that combines beautiful creativity with spot on critical analysis and each makes the other infinitely better. This is my sweet spot. Right here.

jellogram

Benson Boone sounds like the name of a guy in a folk song who gets gunned down for adultery and thrown in a river

jellogram

A cold mist blew through the streets of the town the night they gunned young Benson down. He'd laid with a woman who wasn't his wife and her husband decided he'd pay with his life. By the dark of the night and the light of the moon, into the river went poor Benson Boone.