Discussion: More nomenclature

Also, I hope you didn't fail to notice that in the vicinity of Beaudesert there is a locality named Birnam with a nearby Mt Dunsinane!

I noticed the latter, but not the former. (There was a Scottish football match a few years back where Macbeth and Malcolm were both sent off, disappointingly not for fighting each other).

Well, I saw "Mount" Dunsinane on a map (yes, actual hard copy road atlas) and then some investigation revealed that it is part of the Birnam Range.

Now I am remembering driving past Cawdor Castle during the Scottish 6-Days in 2015, not that I actually knew where I was at the time...

Presumably you did have to study Macbeth in high school?

We all did, didn't we? I am left wondering why, given I was too young to appreciate both the prose and the psychological drama.

I didn't but then I did so badly at my compulsory English Lit class in year 10 (one of two Fs for the year - the other being an undeserved one in a computer class), there was no way I was continuing into upper school.

I didn't study it, actually - the set texts seemed to alternate between years and Othello and the Merchant of Venice were ours.

I think I traversed all three.

I had such a wishywashy teacher dragging us through Romeo and Juliet in Year 11 that most people in her class, including myself, decided not to do English the following year if they could possibly avoid it.