To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
quote by Max Beerbohm
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Hail Macbeth
Hail Macbeth I’m in your field
To deliver the messages of the witches set free
The Lady is strong she will not yield
Unless she is placed in a ‘not to be’
Hail Macbeth the golden eyes are shifting
Remember the earth belongs to me
Hail Macbeth the bullets are sifting
The blue that unlike you can clearly see
Hail Macbeth get out of your text
Before it’s too late for you may be the next
©Miroslava Odalovic
poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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Lady Macbeth: Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.
line from Macbeth, Act I, Scene 5 by William Shakespeare (1606)
Submitted by Dan Costinaş
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Lady Macbeth: Out, damned spot! Out, I say!
line from Macbeth, Act V, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Lady Macbeth: Th' attempt and not the deed
Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready;
He could not miss 'em.
line from Macbeth, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Lady Macbeth: What's done cannot be undone.
line from Macbeth, Act V, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Lady Macbeth: Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time.
line from Macbeth, Act I, Scene 5 by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Macbeth
Macbeth is a great worrier
He never disobey his loyer
He has an evil wife
Those made him have a miserable life
He kills King Duncan in his room
Gust beside his broom
Macbeth started to have a red face
So he toke the king’s place
He tried to kill the king son
In a day where was a sunny sun
He heard best murders that he has
The murders kill his friend but his son escape from them
Macbeth wife die
After his friend son kills him with a pie
Then king son ruled
Macbeth was fooled
poem by Violet Gum Gum
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Macbeth [aside]: Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
line from Macbeth, Act I, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Macbeth: I bear a charmed life, which must not yield,
To one of woman born.
line from Macbeth, Act V, Scene 8 by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Macbeth: So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
line from Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Macbeth: Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
line from Macbeth, Act V, Scene V by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Macbeth: False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
line from Macbeth, Act I, Scene 7 by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Macbeth [Aside]: If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir.
line from Macbeth, Act I, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
quote by Ian McKellen
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Macbeth: It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak.
line from Macbeth, Act III, Scene 4 by William Shakespeare (1606)
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In Good Company
We sat in the kitchen all night drinking Irish tea
and talking till first light about women in literature
Kate, Cordelia, Wyfe of Bath, Antigone, Lady Mac
shrew, fond daughter, lively bawd, tough chick, bitch!
We talked for hours on end about women's roles-
how they talk & nag, play at love, fight male tyranny,
these shrews, daughters, bawds, women & wretches-
one loves a dad too well, one aids & abets Murder One
they talk, they nag, they play the field, they stand & die
one is tamed, a second hanged, another desperate
for love, one loves an aging dad, one inspires murder,
a loyal sister condemned, a cold-hearted queen dies!
Kate's tamed, Cordelia's executed, Wyfe seeks spouse #6,
Shakespeare's Taming fills the Globe, Chaucer's Tales
read in English, Antigone dies, a queen defenestrates!
Sophocles takes first and Macbeth's a great film!
Kiss Me, Kate is box office boffo! Wyfe's Tale a feminist rant!
Kate, Cordelia, Wyfe of Bath, Antigone & Lady Macbeth-
Sophocles takes home gold! Macbeth cops an Oscar!
We sat in the kitchen till first light drinking Irish tea!
poem by Michael Pruchnicki
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Miss Macbeth
All the children testified that miss macbeth
Wore a fishbone slide in her cobweb tresses
Her eyes were black like first foot coal, clutched as white as chalk-dust
Her fingers sweated india-ink and poison-pen letters
There is a hungry hanging tree, just below your bedroom window
You can hear her take a broom to beat out a tattoo on the ceiling
Her bloodless face ran red inside but was she
Really evil, was she only pantomime
Now the chalk on the wall says that somebody
Saves, that somebodys face has just been washed off the pavement
Into a puzzle where petrol will be poisoned by rain
Miss macbeth saw her reflection
As confetti bled its colours down the drain
Chorus:
And everyday she lives out another love song
Its a tearful lament of somebody done wrong
Well how can you miss what youve never possessed?
Miss macbeth
Well we all should have known when the children paraded
They portrayed her in their fairytales, sprinkling deadly nightshade
And as they tormented her she rose to the bait
Even a scapegoat must have someone to hate
And everyday she lives out another love song
Youre up there enjoying yourself, and I know its wrong
Well how can you miss what youve never possessed
Miss macbeth
Sometimes people are just what they appear to be
With no redemption at all
We try to walk upright when we cant even crawl
Miss macbeth has a gollywog she chucks under
The chin and she whispers to it tenderly then sticks it on a pin
And it might be coincidence, but a boy down
The lane, that she said went white as he could do, then doubled over in pain
Chorus
song performed by by Elvis Costello
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I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
quote by Bette Midler
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Lady Macbeth
Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbank, Cosmo Jarvis, Bill Fellows, Naomi Ackie, Paul Hilton, Golda Rosheuvel, Ian Conningham
by Alice Birch from Lady Macbeth (2016)
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Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.
quote by Jones Very
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