Faculty of English

Drum and colours. Enter Menteith, Caithness, Angus, Lennox, soldiers MENTEITH     The English power is near, led on by Malcolm, His uncle Siward, and the good Macduff. Revenges burn in them, for their dear causes Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm Excite the mortified man. ANGUS                        Near Birnam Wood Shall we well meet them; […]

CW: suicidal ideation, brief mention of means   DOCTOR         Foul whisp’rings are abroad. Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles. Infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. More needs she the divine than the physician. God, God, forgive us all! Look after her. Remove from her the means of all annoyance, And still […]

DOCTOR         This disease is beyond my practice. Yet I have known those which have walked in their sleep who have died holily in their beds. LADY              Wash your hands, put on your nightgown, look not so pale. I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried. He cannot come out on’s grave. DOCTOR         Even so? LADY              To bed, […]

LADY              The Thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne’er be clean? No more o’ that, my lord, no more o’ that. You mar all with this starting. DOCTOR         Go to, go to; you have known what you should not. GENTLEWOMAN       She has spoke what she should not, I […]

LADY              Yet here’s a spot. DOCTOR         Hark, she speaks. I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly. LADY              Out, damned spot; out, I say!—One, two: why then, ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when […]

Enter Lady, with a taper GENTLEWOMAN       Lo you, here she comes. This is her very guise, and, upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her. Stand close. DOCTOR         How came she by that light? GENTLEWOMAN       Why, it stood by her. She has light by her continually; ’tis her command. DOCTOR         You see her eyes are open. GENTLEWOMAN       […]

Enter a Doctor of Physic and a Waiting Gentlewoman DOCTOR         I have two nights watched with you, but can perceive no truth in your report. When was it she last walked? GENTLEWOMAN       Since his majesty went into the field I have seen her rise from her bed, throw her nightgown upon her, unlock her closet, take forth […]

MALCOLM                  This tune goes manly. Come, go we to the King. Our power is ready; Our lack is nothing but our leave. Macbeth Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may: The night is long that never finds the day. Exeunt           […]

MALCOLM      Be this the whetstone of your sword. Let grief Convert to anger: blunt not the heart, enrage it. MACDUFF      O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue. But gentle heavens Cut short all intermission. Front to front Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself. Within my sword’s […]

MACDUFF                  He has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop? MALCOLM                  Dispute it like a man. MACDUFF      I shall do so; But I must also feel it as a man. I cannot but remember such things were […]