“More like a mermaid than a queen”: The last time I saw John Singer Sargent’s great painting of Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth…
“And round his heart one strangling golden hair”: Desire has always seemed a dangerous kind of magic…
Viking swords were marvels of art and technology. Poets called them “blood serpents”…
“Double, double toil and trouble”: cauldron imagery was already ancient when Shakespeare got to it…
