Results of Ruminations

In my Shakespeare class, I asked the students to pitch their dream version of the play we had just finished studying ( Macbeth ) as if they had all the resources and connections to make it happen. They selected their favorite actors, researched costume ideas, and digitally developed the way the stage would look. There were lots of different variations on Macbeth , including Breaking Bad meets Macbeth , French Revolution Macbeth , and a couple of Victorian London concepts as the setting for the Scottish play.* It was really cool, and the students did a fantastic job. But the one that really got me thinking was one in which a student framed the story of Scottish dynasties as actually one of the antebellum South. Instead of it being North versus South, however, it was the concept of a plantation owner (Duncan) whose favorite slave (Macbeth) helps quell an uprising on the plantation (the beginning of the play). Since the student was only sketching out the concept, there wasn't time ...