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  2. Biblical allusions in Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Sim, James H. Dramatic Uses of Biblical Allusions in Marlowe and Shakespeare, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1966. Slater, Ann Pasternak. “Variations Within a Source: from Isaiah xxix to ‘The Tempest’” Shakespeare Survey: An Annual Survey of Shakespearian Study and Production 25, Cambridge University Press, 1972, 125–35.

  3. Out, Out— - Wikipedia

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    The title of the poem is an allusion to William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth ("Out, out, brief candle ..." in the "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" soliloquy). [4] Macbeth is shocked to hear of his wife's death and comments on the brevity of life; it refers to how unpredictable and fragile life is. [citation needed]

  4. Macbeth - Wikipedia

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    The Tragedy of Macbeth, ... One suggested allusion supporting a date in late 1606 is the first witch's dialogue about a sailor's wife: "'Aroint thee, ...

  5. List of works by William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth: 1603–1606 [8] First published in the First Folio: There are "fairly clear allusions to the play in 1607." [9] The earliest account of a performance of the play is April 1611, when Simon Forman recorded seeing it at the Globe Theatre. [10] The text of Macbeth which survives has plainly been

  6. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's Macbeth – A Tragedy in Steel: Rebellion: Macbeth: William Shakespeare [22] Smallcreeps's Day: Mike Rutherford: Smallcreep's Day: Peter Currell Brown [23] The Snow Goose: Camel: The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk: Paul Gallico [24] The Songs of Distant Earth: Mike Oldfield: The Songs of Distant Earth: Arthur C. Clarke [25] Tales ...

  7. Third Murderer - Wikipedia

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    The killings of Banquo and Fleance were important to Macbeth and, while the banquet that night was scheduled to start at 7pm, Macbeth did not appear until midnight. Paton believes the Third Murderer extinguished a light to avoid recognition, and later, Macbeth tells Banquo's ghost something that sounds like "In yon black struggle you could ...

  8. Banquo - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth, for example, eagerly accepts the Three Witches' prophecy as true and seeks to help it along. Banquo, on the other hand, doubts the prophecies and the intentions of these seemingly evil creatures. Whereas Macbeth places his hope in the prediction that he will be king, Banquo argues that evil only offers gifts that lead to destruction.

  9. The Rape of Lucrece - Wikipedia

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    Tarquin and Lucretia by Titian. The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Roman noblewoman Lucretia.In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis (1593), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, in which he promised to compose a "graver labour".