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Like the previous evocation of the people running through the streets as the terrible news spreads, this is a reminder that this is a public tragedy too, that the shockwaves are

5 May 2024: Comments on: Ross: I’ve got terrible news (4.3.187-196) #DaggerDrawn #SlowShakespeare

He’s picked up on the idea of the fee-grief: this news is his, it belongs to him, no matter how terrible it is. ... Ross: I’ve got terrible news (4.3.187-196) #DaggerDrawn #SlowShakespeare.

4.3.160-166). Enter Ross. Is he going to be the one who breaks the terrible news to Macduff? ... The priority, therefore, is news: what’s been going on? What’s the latest?

It won’t be an angel who eventually goes to Macduff in England, and the news conveyed to him will be terrible, but that’s in the future.) I’ll send

Oh, the blackest news that ever though heard’st. It’s terrible, it’s the absolute worst. ... Why, man? How black? What’s going on, what’s so terrible about it?

that’s more urgent; he has to give him the terrible news.

Slow Shakespeare. Proteus: I’ve got bad news; Valentine lalalalala (3.1.204-212) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare. ... I’m not listening; and also, I can’t hear anything good, because my ears are so full of terrible news, so much of bad already hath

O, that’s the news. From hence, from Silvia, and from me, thy friend. ... He takes the opportunity: that thou art banished. (This moment, of course, gets reworked in Romeo and Juliet.) O, that’s the news—the terrible news I have to tell

If they have, they’ll die for it. They have indeed made peace (another quibble: much worse in Macbeth, when Ross puts off telling Macduff the terrible news of his ... If they’ve made peace, then they’re damned for this betrayal: terrible hell make