Limb Jae-un, Korea.net

March 14, 2014

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”

It is a line from “Macbeth,” a tragedy by literary giant William Shakespeare (1564-1616). The play is full of conflict and struggle between contradictory values, such as good and evil and fair and foul. As society grows larger and confusions deepen, people have come to think more about the true meaning of life and seriously discuss one’s existence. It was Shakespeare who described the complexity in human conflicts and the intricacy of their emotions, better than anyone else.

In celebration of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, a series of performances, from play and opera to film and musical, are scheduled throughout the year and across Korea. Due to the penetrative insight contained in his works, many people have sympathized with his characters, regardless of time, space, society and age. The conflicts between good and evil and clashes between the expressed desires in his plays can still be reinterpreted and seem appropriate for the contemporary world. […continued]

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