Unit #4 -Shakespeare's MacBeth

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All the world's a stage . . . .

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"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."
-------MacBeth, V.V.26-30

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MACBETH, BANQUO & THE THREE WEIRD SISTERS

"So fair and foul a day I have not seen."
------Macbeth, I.3.38

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"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, will these hands ne'er be clean? . . . .Here's the smell of the blood still: all the pefumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh! oh! oh!"
------------------Lady Macbeth, Act V, scene I.

LADY MACBETH
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