Summary: After the king is murdered, a loyal guard spirits the crown and the young prince out of the castle and entrusts them to the care of three witches. The new king, the previous king's murderer, the duke, a man with little respect for witches or for the kingdom itself, pisses off a great many people. The aforementioned three witches decide to take action.
Thoughts: Squee, lovely story, quite conveluted, which makes it all the better. And, to some extent, a rip-off of Macbeth, but that's okay because it has so much of its own spin that it's only in the large elements and some specific lines of dialogue. Wait, no, it's like that other tragedy we had to read last quarter. Was it Hamlet? Yeah, I think it was. Anyway, it may be similar, but it's also far different, and that's what counts, unless it isn't. Um, apparently I'm incapable of rational thought at the moment. Which a) doesn't surprise me and b) means I should probably shut up now.
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