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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

McKellen as MacBeth

Ian McKellen's rich performance in the MacBeth banquet scene was one of the first videos I showed the Year 7s' in Literature class. Some of the students were pleasantly surprised that McKellen was 'saying exactly what was written in the book' (fancy that).

Posted by alwyn at 9:20 AM
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