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The novelist H. E. Bates described the rapid, agile flight of dragonflies in his 1937 nonfiction book [9] Down the River: [10] I saw, once, an endless procession, just over an area of water-lilies, of small sapphire dragonflies, a continuous play of blue gauze over the snowy flowers above the sun-glassy water.
Dragonflies are represented in human culture on artefacts such as pottery, rock paintings, statues, and Art Nouveau jewellery. They are used in traditional medicine in Japan and China, and caught for food in Indonesia. They are symbols of courage, strength, and happiness in Japan, but seen as sinister in European folklore.
Macbeth was a favourite of the seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys, who saw the play on 5 November 1664 ("admirably acted"), 28 December 1666 ("most excellently acted"), ten days later on 7 January 1667 ("though I saw it lately, yet [it] appears a most excellent play in all respects"), on 19 April 1667 ("one of the best plays for a stage ...
This category lists all articles related to William Shakespeare's Macbeth See also the categories Hamlet , Othello , King Lear , and Romeo and Juliet Wikimedia Commons has media related to Macbeth .
Light Thickens is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the thirty-second, and final, novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1982. [1] The plot concerns the murder of the lead actor in a production of Macbeth in London, and the novel takes its title from a line in the play.
This is attributed to a legend in which Japan's mythical founder, Emperor Jinmu, was bitten by a mosquito, which was then eaten by a dragonfly. [35] [36] As a seasonal symbol in Japan, the dragonfly is associated with autumn, [37] and more generally dragonflies are symbols of courage, strength, and happiness, and they often appear in Japanese ...
Lord Macduff, the Thane of Fife, is a character and the heroic main protagonist in William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c.1603–1607) that is loosely based on history. Macduff, a legendary hero, plays a pivotal role in the play: he suspects Macbeth of regicide and eventually kills Macbeth in the final act.
The Three Witches, characters in Shakespeare's Macbeth [33] In his poem " Howl ", [ 34 ] Allen Ginsberg laments the ravages of "the three old shrews of fate the one eyed shrew of the heterosexual dollar the one eyed shrew that winks out of the womb and the one eyed shrew that does nothing but sit on her ass and snip the intellectual golden ...