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“New honors come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold But with the aid of use.”

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Book:Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“MacBeth and Me Down below the twisted step, The tavern awaits night's Dark guests. Fires aglow hiss the emb'rous red, And Hell waits upon her most prized dead. A charmed man of thirty or so, Ambition's son who vaults so low. Tarries he now at table's dread, and drinks The draught of one Soul condemned. Lingers he so, o'er beef and wassail, Choicest portions of desires assailed. Presses he down lusts murd'rous and hard, A driving rain of the blackest of hearts. 'Prince of Cumberland,' he had to traverse, Or fall asunder, star-crossed to his curse. Sees shadows now and smiles slight at me, Knows he a kindred, in like debauchery. Eyes my spirit through cracked mirror. Banquo saw too and was butchered in Fear. The Lady also, unsexed, it seemed (Tended she cravings 'cided that King). Aye, locked below under tomorrow's step, He lies awaiting in damned inquest. Mortals what I am and to what I agree, Bids me to his table, Macbeth and me. --Poems on the Run, vol. I”

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Author:douglas laurent

“If anyone [like Lady Macbeth] kills himself/herself because of sins or inner guilts, it is suicide but if anyone [like Othello] kills himself/herself because of others’ injustice to him/her [victim of nepotism, conspiracy, jealousy, corruption, etc.], familial or social pressures and so on, then it is ‘murder’!”

Murder Suicide Corruption Jealousy Conspiracy Md Ziaul Haque King Of Words Hamlet Othello Macbeth

Author:Md. Ziaul Haque

“All causes shall give way: I am in blood Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er.”

Blood Halfway Shakespeare Wade Macbeth

Book:Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“I am in blood Stepped in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go’er”

Choices Macbeth

Book:Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“I couldn't stop now. I'd caused so much misery that stopping now would earn me all the misery plus no reward at the end. I had to keep going.”

Regret Drama Murder Villain Murderer Macbeth

Book:Sixth in Line

Source: Sixth in Line

“Nought’s had, all’s spent, where our desire is got without content.”

Regret Lady Macbeth Macbeth

Book:Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“What, you egg?”

Book:Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“It seems ti me that the're a whein o guid grunds for owresettin the Shakespeare play intil Scots. For ae thing, the action is set maistlie in Scotland an the dramatis personae is maistlie Scots. For aw, it haes becom an English stage tradeition ti knap the plays o Shakespeare in a clippit ferr back Inglish accent, an whan this is duin wi Macbeth, it is ill ti credit that the action haes oniething to dae wi Scotland at aw. For another thing, Shakespeare's play is nou that weill-kent that monie skreids in it ir nou clichés - wurds that war aince fou o virr haes becum sachless owre the hunders o year sen they war written.”

William Shakespeare Scots Language Macbeth

Book:Scots Glasnost VII: April 1993

Source: Scots Glasnost VII: April 1993

“Not all suicides are suicides, some are murders!”

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Author:Md. Ziaul Haque

“The Birnam Oak by Stewart Stafford Medieval guardian, limpet oak, Reinforced branches, sunlit soak, Gnarled limbs in supplicant pose, A statuesque deity in thorny repose. Set up tent 'neath a canopy deep, Where my pilgrim forbears sleep, Midges swarming campfire's glow, And drowsy me, to slumber go. May roots prosper far from sight, Defying storm, flame, chainsaw's bite, Give verdant breath to creation's plan. Until Earth falls from human hand. © 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”

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Author:Stewart Stafford

“Gib Worte deinem Schmerz: Gram, der nicht spricht, / Presst das beladene Herz, bis dass es bricht.”

Schmerz Macbeth

Book:Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“His silver skin laced with his golden blood.”

Book:Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“In order that a new world may step in, this world must for a time disappear. The murderers and the murder must be insulated -- cut off by an immeasurable gulf from the ordinary tide and succession of human affairs locked up and sequestered in some deep recess; we must be made sensible that the world of ordinary life is suddenly arrested -- laid asleep -- tranced -- racked into a dread armistice; time must be annihilated; relation to things without abolished; and all must pass self-withdrawn into a deep syncope and suspension of earthly passion. Hence it is, that, when the deed is done, when the work of darkness is perfect, then the world of darkness passes away like a pageantry in the clouds: the knocking at the gate is heard; and it makes known audibly that the reaction has commenced: the human has made its reflux upon the fiendish; the pulses of life are beginning to beat again...”

Death Time Crime Criticism Murder Shakespeare Knocking Macbeth

Book:Confessions of an English Opium-Eater & Other Writings

Source: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater & Other Writings

“So Scotland is to be thought of as a country different from England... the reader and perhaps still more the spectator of Macbeth are made to envisage unmistakably a 'Caledonia stern and wild', a chilly and thinly-populated land of mountains and shaggy woods rather than ploughed fields, of barren moors and battlefields and grim fortresses rather than towns, villages and farms. The elements in this most atmospheric of plays accord with the wild setting and with the wild deeds occurring in it. The weather is unpredictable, more often than not stormy and boistrous... with dark nights or ominous half-light predominant over brief glimpses of the day and the sun.”

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Book:Murder Under Trust, or The Topical Macbeth and other Jacobean Matters

Source: Murder Under Trust, or The Topical Macbeth and other Jacobean Matters

“Busquemos una sombra solitaria donde vaciar de nuestro pecho la tristeza”

Shakespeare Macbeth Malcolm

Book:Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“Il dardo omicida che è stato scoccato Non ha toccato terra; è la via più sicura E' quella di evitarne la caduta. Dunque, a cavallo. Non indugiamo in leziosi congedi: Prendiamo il volo. C'è onore nella fuga Di chi abbandona il luogo in cui s'è estinta ogni pietà”

William Shakespeare Macbeth Malcom

Book:Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“Then it kissed me—not as a man would kiss a lover, not with tenderness or even passion. This was a kiss that stole the soul of men. Revulsion at this creature’s kiss was instantly replaced by the warmth stealing through my veins, as if my missing blood were being replenished and contrived to heal me. I craved to keep kissing the beast. My entire being awakened to that kiss feeding me ecstasy, feeding me life.”

Source: The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched

“The black of the ocean waves was the color of the sorrow in my breast, a sorrow that was never far away and always visible.”

“I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless.”

Source: The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched

“My life was going exactly where I wanted it to until the Devil showed up.”

Source: The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched

“Iona stared at me for a long time. “You are going to leave me a widow before I have a chance to become a bride.”

Source: The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched

“God himself had sent me away. I was truly now among the damned.”

Source: The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched

“I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.”

Source: The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched