MacBeth

I have read MacBeth once before and watched a full-length theater production on film in my Introduction to the Theatre class. I found it to be the darkest, bloodiest, most unbearable play of all of Shakespeare's. Reading the text was interesting, but watching the play peformed was horrific.
However, looking at MacBeth a second time in Shakespeare's Tragedies, the approach the class took to the text was much more interesting and comfortable. Analyzing the witches and whether or not they were good, bad, or just prophetic was interesting, and the wizard in Throne of Blood was an interesting character to compare to the witches. I now also understand Lady MacBeth's character more than I did before this class. The manipulation of her husband and her thirst for power which bypasses all empathy for others is the most horrifying part of MacBeth. While I don't plan on reading MacBeth again, I have a different, more interesting opinion of the play now.