Macbeth: Macbethis a tragedy by Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare. After a battle, Lord Macbeth encounters three witches who promise that he will be the next king. When he shares this prophecy with his wife, Lady Macbeth convinces him to murder the...
So How Many Children Did Lady Macbeth Have? Syntagmatic Theory and the Construal of Fictional WorldsRichard Harland
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Stone reaches the Chinese re-entry capsule just as the space station is about to crash into the atmosphere. She unlocks from the station and is descending to Earth when a fire starts. After she lands safely in a lake, she has to evacuate the capsule immediately because of the smoke and n...
Take Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth, who during the day conceals the depth of her treachery, but at night in her sleep confesses her guilt. Others associate it with the occult, as in "Dracula" when the vampire is finally able to sink his teeth into Lucy while she sleeps. Others insist that...
MACBETH. This is a sorry sight. [Looking at his hands] LADY MACBETH. A foolish thought to say a sorry sight. MACBETH. There's one did laugh in sleep, and one cried "Murder!" That they did wake each other. I stood and heard them; But they did say their prayers, and addressed them...
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and I’ll get back to some of those later. I’ve already mentioned some of them. I like that quote, “It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing,” from Macbeth. Thank you, yes, right. These words don’t matter, and they have ...
Ari Wegner is fast becoming one of the most exciting cinematographers around. From William Oldroyd’sLady Macbethand Peter Strickland’sIn Fabricto Janicza Bravo’sZolaand Jane Campion’sThe Power of the Dog, her work is highly imaginative, varied and always evolving. We’ll next see her behind...
To see the guy as he is and love him that way, but also to love the part of him that wants more, without fetishizing it or getting your heart set on anything. I mean, you don’t want to be Lady Macbeth, but you don’t want to be Frank McCourt’s mother, either. (Maybe Robin...