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Publisher's summary. Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of Macbeth, the play that, superstition says, always brings bad luck. But one night the claymore swings, and the dummy's head is more than real: murder behind the scene. Luckily, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn is in the audience....
28 de ene. de 2016 · Light Thickens is Ngaio Marsh's last crime novel, completed shortly before her death in 1982. Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of Macbeth, the play that, superstition says, always brings bad luck. But one night the claymore swings and the dummy's head is more than real: murder behind the scene.
Shakespeare uses light imagery to reveal Macbeth’s immoral personality which resulted from greed. Before Banquo was murdered, Macbeth laments to Lady Macbeth, "Light thickens, and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse" (III.ii. l50-53).
25 de feb. de 2024 · Light Thickens by Marsh, Ngaio (1982) Hardcover. Publication date 1982 Publisher Little Brown & Co (T) Collection internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Notes. Most texts are cut-off due to tight binding. Addeddate 2024-02-25 00:44:55 Autocrop_version
24 de ago. de 2022 · Light Thickens by Ngaio Marsh is the final installment of her long-running detective novels featuring the brilliant Inspector Roderick Alleyn. Set in a theater in London, the novel revolves around the mysterious death of the actor-manager of the theater during a dress rehearsal of Macbeth. The plot of Light Thickens is classic whodunit fare, with…
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Light thickens, and the crow / makes wing to the rooky wood. / Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; / whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse. / Thou marvel’st at my words: but hold thee still. / Things bad begun make strong themselves in ill.” “Light thickens.” Once editor glosses thickens as “dims.”
