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  2. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow - Wikipedia

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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

  3. Sleepwalking scene - Wikipedia

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    Act 5, Scene 1, better known as the sleepwalking scene, is a critically celebrated scene from William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (1606). It deals with the guilt experienced by Lady Macbeth, one of the main themes of the play. Carrying a taper (candlestick), Lady Macbeth enters sleepwalking. The Doctor and the Gentlewoman stand aside to observe.

  4. Three Witches - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth and Banquo with the Witches by Henry Fuseli. The Three Witches first appear in Act 1, Scene 1, where they agree to meet later with Macbeth. In Act 1, Scene 3, they greet Macbeth with a prophecy that he shall be king, and his companion, Banquo, with a prophecy that he shall generate a line of kings. The prophecies have great impact upon ...

  5. Lionel Charles Knights - Wikipedia

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    He was a co-editor of Scrutiny, the literary journal of F. R. Leavis's school, from May 15, 1932, to 1953 when it ceased publication.. He was an English lecturer at the University of Manchester in 1933, then Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield in 1947 and the Winterstoke Professor of English at University of Bristol in 1953.

  6. Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth

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    It was published by Atheneum Books in 1967 and next year in the UK by Macmillan under the title Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth and Me. [1] Jennifer, Hecate was the author's first book published, the same year as her second book From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

  7. Macbeth (character) - Wikipedia

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    Lord Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis and quickly the Thane of Cawdor, is the title character and main protagonist in William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c. 1603–1607). The character is loosely based on the historical king Macbeth of Scotland and is derived largely from the account in Holinshed's Chronicles (1577), a compilation of British history.

  8. Book of Plays - Wikipedia

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    Simon Forman's description of a production of Macbeth at the Globe Theatre, 20 April 1610.Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 208, f. 207r. The Book of Plays (full title in original spelling The Bocke of Plaies and Notes therof p formans for Common Pollicie) is a section of a manuscript by the London astrologer Simon Forman that records his descriptions of four plays he attended in 1610-11 ...

  9. The Way to Dusty Death - Wikipedia

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    The title is a quotation from the famous soliloquy in Act 5, Scene 5 in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. The book was published in 1973 and became a best seller. [1] The Chicago Tribune thought Maclean was writing "as a parody of himself". [2]