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"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" is the beginning of the second sentence of one of the most famous soliloquies in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth. It takes place in the beginning of the fifth scene of Act 5, during the time when the Scottish troops, led by Malcolm and Macduff , are approaching Macbeth 's castle to besiege it.
Nothing if Not Critical by Robert Hughes (II.i) From "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on" (III.ii.111): See Green-Eyed Monster (disambiguation) From "Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!" (III.iii): Pomp and Circumstance Marches, orchestral marches by Edward Elgar
This category is for English phrases which were invented by Shakespeare, and older phrases which were notably used in his works. The main article for this category is William Shakespeare . Pages in category "Shakespearean phrases"
Loosely based on William Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing, Anyone But You is chock-full of references to its source material that could be easily overlooked by the casual viewer.
Shakespeare added hundreds of new words to the English language, including many commonly used words and colorful expressions that we still use today.
When Faulkner began writing the story that would develop into The Sound and the Fury, it "was tentatively titled ‘Twilight,’ [and] narrated by a fourth Compson child," but as the story progressed into a larger work, he renamed it, [7] drawing its title from Macbeth's famous soliloquy from act 5, scene 5 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth:
An early example of nihilistic thought comes from William Shakespeare in the character of Macbeth. In the final act of the play of the same name, he concludes his “tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow” monologue by describing life as “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
According to Open Source Shakespeare, a web page containing all of the bard’s plays, poems and sonnets, there are 884,421 words in the entire works of Shakespeare.