I predict a riot
Photo by Maan Limburg on Unsplash By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Macbeth Did you know that a play can cause a riot? A riot in New York. A riot that went down as one of the deadliest in American history A riot in which at least 22 people were killed, and over 100 were injured. I studied Macbeth when I retook my English GCSE in 2005, and I had no idea this had happened. And it wasn't the only riot. Another one happened 40 years earlier in Covent Garden, lasting 64 days because of an increase in ticket prices . The Scottish play didn't cause that one, but it was being performed during the opening of a theatre, which lit the fuse, causing the riot to explode. So how did I find out about these riots? I found out about them, though, in a novel. A novel called The Lincoln Hig...