Dante’s Inferno is almost here, much to the anger of literature purists who like to point out that the original Italian poem never mentioned anything about Dante God-of-Warring his way through Hell for his beloved. By this time next week, I’m sure we’ll all…be playing Bioshock 2.

But in an recent interview with Industry Gamers, the jokers at developer Visceral Games (or rather, one joker, Executive Producer Jonathon Knight) has shot his mouth off about besmirching another beloved work of literary art…um…The Scottish Play.

Okay, if you don’t know what I mean, hold tight. See when I refer to “The Scottish Play”, I’m referring to a very specific Scottish play. Okay, it’s not Scottish, but the characters are. I’m getting nowhere here…

Okay, I’ll say it. Once. From that point on, read between the lines:

“MacBeth”

*ptoo*

The so called “Scottish Play” is referred to as that because, in theatrical circles, to invoke the name of…He Who Shall Not Be Named (not Valdemort, jerk) is to invoke a cursed play, and there by transfer the curse to yourself. Supposedly, when Shakespeare wrote the piece, he used actual chants and spells he gleaned (read as: spied on) from the local witches in the dialogue. Furious about his…use of artistic liscense (press passes hadn’t been invented yet), the witches cursed the show and all performances of it, to the point that even to say…that name aloud is sure to cause problems for any staged show, not just The Scottish One...

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