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Macbeth, Part 2‽

This is one of the ballsyest things ever accomplished in literature. Taking one of Shakespeare's greatest classics and writing a sequel from where it left off...four hundred years later! It's written in blank Shakespearean verse and is supposed to be as true to the original as possible. I think that takes guts to write a sequel to such an old story with such a devout group of followers. What's next, The Bible, Part 2‽ Don't get me wrong, I'm curious, and if done well this could lead to a whole new string of adaptations of public domain material. After all, that's what classic storytelling came about, repeating stories by word of mouth, adding interesting bits to them, subtracting the parts that didn't receive a great reaction. Shakespeare's tales were his takes on stories he had heard countless times before. I say bring a sequel on. The problem is that with rare exception (like the excellent movies Godfather 2 or Wrath of Khan), sequels can rarely live up to the original; when the original has had four hundred years of fame, those are some large shoes to fill!