Sam, there's an 'I' adrift from your fine Iago in the first line of the last stanza. Is this an actual Gilbertian stanza or one that might have been a Gilbertian stanza?
Thanks for your note about 'sleep with the fishes'. I really didn't want to change that.
Re Joe MacBeth. Do you, or does any American, realise the full horror of Banquo played by Sid James? 'Carry on to Dunsinane'. Do you know that Dunsinane is a real place and a real castle, pronounced Dunsinnon? Ian McKellen did MacBeth in a leather jacket. Not bad. Actually, I've never seen a good one except the Japanese MacBeth who is (I think) Toshiro Mifune. But in Japanese unfortunately. Do I rate Welles's MacBeth? No I don't. His Falstaff is his Shakespearian masterpiece
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