Today’s essay is Tansy Rayner Roberts’ second on Pratchett’s Men, and this time she’s taking on the men of Wyrd Sisters. This is another Pratchett novel I haven’t read in ages, and I admit that I had forgotten a lot of the Shakespeare roasting. Given that Macbeth is my favourite Shakespeare play, followed by Hamlet (I’m all about the tragedies; the comedies can largely go jump as far as I’m concerned), that’s quite the lacunae in my memory. Roberts is insightful in her examination of both kings and would-be kings, and what their relationship to the witches and to the concept of power tells us about them.