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- Believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606
- Loosely based on Raphael Holinshed's historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland
- Published in the First Folio 1623
- Shortest of Shakespeare's tragedies (1,993 lines)
- First performance: April 1611 - Globe Theatre
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Macbeth is a classic tragedy by William Shakespeare.
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Macbeth Quotes
- Source: Wikiquote: Macbeth Quotes
- Lady Macbeth: Out, damned spot! out, I say! (Act 4, Scene 1)
- Lady Macbeth: What's done cannot be undone. (Act 4, Scene 1)
- King Duncan: There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. (Act 1, Scene 4)
- Macbeth: False face must hide what the false heart doth know. (Act 1, Scene 8)
- Lady Macbeth: Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done. (Act 3, Scene 2)
- Lady Macbeth: But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail. (Act 1, Scene 7)
- Macbeth: Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires. (Act 1, Scene 4)
- Lady Macduff: When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors. (Act 4, Scene 2)
- Banquo: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence. (Act 1, Scene 1)
- Lady Macbeth: Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it. (Act 1, Scene 5)
- Macbeth: If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me. (Act 1, Scene 3)
- Lady Macbeth: Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. (Act 1, Scene 5)
- Malcolm: Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. (Act 4, Scene 3)
- Malcolm: Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. (Act 4, Scene 3)
- Macbeth: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! 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. (Act 5, Scene 5)
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Macbeth Witches Quotes
- Source: Wikiquote: Macbeth Quotes
- Witches: Fair is foul, and foul is fair. (Act 1, Scene 1)
- Witches: Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble. (Act 4, Scene 1)
- Second Witch: By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. (Act 4, Scene 1)
- First Witch: Sleep shall neither night nor day hang upon his pent-house lid. (Act 1, Scene 3)
- Second Witch: Eye of newt, and toe of frog, wool of bat, and tongue of dog. (Act 4, Scene 1)
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