Macbeth Comments

  • Annie 2022-07-04 17:00:40

    This version of Lady Macbeth is better, but is it too exemplary that the Macbeth and his wife are together in the last scene? Macbeth lost sleep, Lady Macbeth lost day, and both were lonely prisoners. Macbeth plays ambition and terror, but his noble side really doesn't show. This comes from the parts of his humanity that have not died out: unresolved guilt, self-loathing, and courage. Dance...

  • Liana 2022-07-04 16:26:12

    It makes me sick, can you fucking stop giving yourself so many...

  • Roger 2022-07-04 13:54:32

    No wonder Ao Fatty said many years later that he was sure to use a 16 cm TV close-up to shoot an excellent "King...

Extended Reading
  • Ellen 2022-07-04 10:55:36

    Life is but a walking shadow

    Macbeth Act 5, scene 5, 19–28
    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 is but a walking shadow,
    a poor player that struts and...

  • Kailyn 2022-07-04 21:41:21

    Shakespeare's film debut

    Orson Welles begins his Shakespeare trilogy with Macbeth. "Macbeth" makes Welles rediscover that he still enjoys his freedom and his own genius in full. As Jean Cocteau said of the film - "Orson Welles' Macbeth has a raw, unruly force. His actors are in some fantastic subway tunnel. Wandering...

Macbeth quotes

  • Lady Macbeth: [during Macbeth's strange behavior at the banquet] This is the very painting of your fear. This is the air-drawn dagger which you said led you to Duncan.

  • Macbeth: I have liv'd long enough: my way of life is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.