Alan Napier

Alan Napier

  • Born: 1903-1-7
  • Height: 6' 6" (1.98 m)
  • Extended Reading
    • Ellen 2022-07-04 10:55:36

      Life is but a walking shadow

      Macbeth Act 5, scene 5, 19–28
      Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
      creeps in this petty pace from day to day
      To the last syllable of recorded time;
      And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
      the way to dusty death.
      Out, out brief candle!
      Life is but a walking shadow,
      a poor player that struts and...

    • Kailyn 2022-07-04 21:41:21

      Shakespeare's film debut

      Orson Welles begins his Shakespeare trilogy with Macbeth. "Macbeth" makes Welles rediscover that he still enjoys his freedom and his own genius in full. As Jean Cocteau said of the film - "Orson Welles' Macbeth has a raw, unruly force. His actors are in some fantastic subway tunnel. Wandering...

    Macbeth quotes

    • A Holy Father: God's benison go with you. And with those that would make good of bad, and friends of foes.

    • Macduff: Stands Scotland where it did?

      A Holy Father: Alas, poor country, almost afraid to know itself. It cannot be called our mother, but our grave...