![]() And ghosts and “divers alarums” and witches.Īh, yes, Pratchett’s witches - the two old standbys, Granny Weatherwax, the crotchety uber-witch, and Nanny Ogg, an earth-motherish sort, as well as Magrat Garlick, the junior witch who’s still a bit wet behind the ears.Īs usual, the plot is secondary to Pratchett’s use of the story to comment on the wide world of life, such as his description of inspiration and how it affects a playwright-dwarf: There’s a forest that moves, and a murdered king, and an unexpected heir.Īnd, like many a Shakespearian effort, there are characters who are masquerading as other people. It’s got an evil Duchess to play the Queen part, and a Duke who takes the hand-washing bit way too far. This 1988 novel borrows a lot of the plot of MacBeth. Two decades earlier, that great and silly English writer Terry Pratchett did the same thing in Wyrd Sisters. ![]() ![]() (And, after all, the great Will stole all his plots from earlier writers, right?) Either way, the results are hilarious - Fool(a rip-off, excuse me, homage to King Lear) and The Serpent of Venice( Merchant of Venice and Othello). That great and silly American writer Christopher Moore, in recent years, has mined the Shakespeare canon for sources for his comic novels. ![]()
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