How To Use Macbeth In A Sentence

I can't quote you chapter and verse but I think it's a line from 'Macbeth'.
I have a chapter on Shakespeare and Macbeth; there's the chapter about Ancient Greece, a chapter about Delphi and sibyls in Grecian-Roman times.
Lady Macbeth has nothing personal against the men, women and children she must destroy to clear her husband's way to power - her purposefulness is pure.
Tabu does full justice to the spirit of Lady Macbeth; scheming, greedy, manipulative, yet not stonehearted enough to drink wine laced with blood.
Lady Macbeth uses alcohol and Satan to ‘unsex’ her and make her strong.

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She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role
1. 4Lady Macbeth speaks in soliloquy about driving a implicitly squeamish Mac. to seize a throne. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
Later mythologizers would try to legitimize the family's regal pretensions by claiming descent from the Banquo of Shakespeare's "Macbeth"—which was nonsense, as Mr. Massie explains: The name "Stewart," as it was rendered before Mary Stuart adopted the French spelling, indicated the family's original status, as stewards of the royal revenues. Servants To Masters
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Immediately afterwards comes the news that the king has created Macbeth thane of Cawdor.
I *think* "moreso" has a sense of "more importantly," at least as my students use it: Macbeth's ambition is more important than the witches' prophecy in determining his actions. Ferule & Fescue
Like Nestor, who preaches about the fine fellows he remembered in his youth, Lepidus (although barely yet in his grand climacteric!) will depicture, with moving eloquence, the numerous precious volumes of far-famed collectors, which he has seen, like Macbeth's witches, Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
Son of Banquo, Fleance escapes Macbeth's murderous rampage and flees to England where he helps Macduff mount the insurrection that unthrones Macbeth.
MR. JOHN C.M. MACBETH: Gentlemen of The Empire Club: We are happy to welcome today an emissary from the office of the British High Commissioner at Ottawa, who is going to address us on the subject "Dunkirk to Dieppe and Beyond. Dunkirk to Dieppe and Beyond
Macbeth had a wife, to whom he communicated the strange prediction of the weird sisters, and its partial accomplishment.
In a hurly-burly whirl of tunes and groovy jives, Macbeth: The Rock Opera, which puts on its final performance at the Guild Theatre tonight, is rocking audiences, young and old.
She was auditioning for the role of Lady Macbeth.
WELCOME MSOMI, DIRECTOR, "ZULU MACBETH": The similarities between "Macbeth" and Uma Botha (ph), it's exactly the same things, where Macabiu (ph), the princess in the Zulu family, instigated and got his brothers and cousins to kill King Shaga (ph) so that King Denun (ph) could take over. CNN Transcript May 5, 2001
I appeal to every reader of feeling and sentiment whether the fictitious murther of Duncan by Macbeth in Shakespeare does not excite in him as great a horror of villainy, as the real one of Henry IV by Ravaillac as related by Davila?
The local drama group are putting on ` Macbeth'at the Playhouse.
This area is also famous as Macbeth Country, and the The Birnam Wood, made famous by the witches' prophesy in Shakespeare's MacBeth, is on the south bank of the River Tay.
The only real flash of colour in the whole production was the evening dress wore by Lady Macbeth as she plots murder with her husband.
The form 'eterne' occurs in Shakespeare only in _Macbeth_, III.ii. 38, and in the 'proof eterne' of the Player's speech. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
Then the ghost of Banquo, all gory and bloody comes to haunt Macbeth at the banquet.
Apart from the Faust music, his most remarkable work is the programmatic symphonic poem Macbeth.
Macbeth lives as an exemplum of the perverted hero, because of Shakespeare's ability to give life to every stage of his disastrous career.
This is a grasping, ambitious woman in the style of Lady Macbeth, who'll readily sacrifice people for her own gain.
He sniffed Macbeth and the other titles Koko had dislodged. The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare
As a card-carrying Shakespearean, I have called attention to the tiny detail of the temple-haunting martlet, but specialized knowledge is hardly required: in Goold's Macbeth we quickly sense the atmosphere of Stalinist Russia, with its pervasive paranoia, its inner circles of nervous, vulpine flatterers, its interrogation chambers and extorted confessions, its public rituals of adulation braided together with opportunism, fear, and hatred. In the Night Kitchen
Meanwhile Siward died, and the matter rested for a few years, Malcolm reigning as King of Cumbria, and Macbeth occupying the Scottish throne.
Their production of 'Macbeth' was quite the worst I've ever seen - it was a travesty.
The reader can appreciate her desperation as her love for Macbeth becomes hopeless.
Macbeth invites Banquo to attend a dinner banquet in the evening as an honored guest.
Macbeth is a famous tragedy by Shakespeare.
Their production of 'Macbeth' was quite the worst I've ever seen - it was a travesty.
Lady Macbeth says: Wouldst thou have that Which thou call the ornery of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem, Kill Ten Rats
Gary Parr, a Lazard Ltd. investment banker who had done some work for Bear Stearns, was summoned from the Brooklyn theater where he was watching Patrick Stewart play "Macbeth.
At the International Festival, Macbeth has taken a healthy amount of pummelling and stretching.
Without the witches, the ghost, the visions, and the apparitions, ‘Macbeth’ would have been a dull and tiresome play.
The tool that Lady Macbeth uses to galvanize her husband into action is humiliation.
Earlier I compared the apparition of specters in Observe the Sons of Ulster to sequences of reverance in Macbeth and Hamlet.
She excelled in many great roles, most memorably as Lady Macbeth at the National Theatre.
Now all reason up seems meaningless to him: a feeling not odd to a grief-stricken, nonetheless here related to a dignified dried which Macbeth has combined as his middle landscape. Archive 2009-11-01
Decisive during the simplicities of battle, without her he would forever be a waverer in the complexities of peace: more Hamlet, indeed, than Macbeth.
Miss Gazdowick will play Lady McDuff in Macbeth and Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, while Mr Smith will play Duncan in Macbeth.
A Witch's Tangled Hare, a 1959 Warner Brothers cartoon, offers Bugs Bunny and Witch Hazel in a pastiche of selections from Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet.
Earlier I compared the apparition of specters in Observe the Sons of Ulster to sequences of reverance in Macbeth and Hamlet.
Working on Macbeth, he drove his librettist half insane with demands that he stick close to Shakespeare.
Caroline Lynch makes a strong impression as Lady Macbeth but the truncated text allows her little room for development and so her collapse and death feel sudden and unaccountable.
No more chilling evocation of the willing choice of evil exists in all literature than Lady Macbeth's famous renunciation of maternal feeling for the sake of power.
The show also features choice morsels of mayhem from Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Richard III.
Although I am a fan of the mainstage at the Bard on the Beach, the intimate setting of the stage was perfect for the staging of Macbeth.
The character of Millie, Eder says, remains a villainess rivaled only by Lady Macbeth in all of English theater and film.
The first sound of an innocent human voice since the murder is stifled when Macbeth's hirelings kill Macduff's little boy.
Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen's leech Lopez, his jew's heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive: _Hamlet_ and _Macbeth_ with the coming to the throne of a Scotch philosophaster with a turn for witchroasting. Ulysses
After Macbeth consults the witches in Act Three, they put him to bed, where he awakens after having dreamed of dandling babies, reading tales to his children, and enjoying the other benefits of family life.
The terse style of Macbeth had been attributed to him. Times, Sunday Times
Capcha: foris, as in, "How far is't to Foris?" or something like that in Macbeth! Ooops
But Garber's greatest strength is old-school close reading: she traces the idea of doubleness in "Macbeth" from the witches 'familiar incantation ( "Double, double, toil and trouble") to the hero's divided consciousness, and finding "The Tempest's" theme of cyclical repetition reflected even in the passing reference to Caliban's mother, the witch Sycorax, "with age and envy ... grown into a hoop. SHAKESPEARE 101: A+
In the text of Macbeth, the sequential organization of time of Macbeth is broken, which forms the necessity of the tragedy.
It was MacBeth retold as professional wrestlers and included a Lady Macbeth that lactated at least 10 rows into the audience. "One can cook really delicious things with [breast milk]. However, it always needs to be mixed with a bit of whipped cream..."
In fact, books flocked there as martlets did to Macbeth's castle; there was "no jutty frieze or coigne of vantage" but a book had made it his "pendent bed," -- and it appeared The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859
The terse style of Macbeth had been attributed to him. Times, Sunday Times
Macbeth, honest and humble, was corrupted by the powers of fortune.
Hearing these confessionals was a thrill akin to skimming Lady Macbeth's diary or getting drunk with Machiavelli.
II. i.25 (435,2) If you shall cleave to my consent, Then 'tis,/It shall make honour for you] Macbeth expressed his thought with affected obscurity; he does not mention the royalty, though he apparently has it in his mind, _If you shall cleave to my consent_, if you shall concur with me when I determine to accept the crown, _when 'tis_, when that happens which the prediction promises, _it shall make honour for you_. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
She's done all the important Shakespearean roles apart from Lady Macbeth.
Banquo's wraith, which is invisible to all but Macbeth, is the haunting of an evil conscience. From Chaucer to Tennyson
Macduff is a Scottish noble who suspects that Macbeth has murdered Duncan from the very beginning.
'Macbeth' is playing at the Theatre Royal in York.
But in them nature's copy's not eterne, she meant only that they would some day die; or that she felt any surprise when Macbeth replied, Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
He has captured Macbeth's essential weakness of character in his slow descent into paranoia and depression.
Macbeth believed the witches' prophecy about his future.
Macbeth had a wife, to whom he communicated the strange prediction of the weird sisters, and its partial accomplishment.
Before Lady Macbeth is shown walking in her sleep and wringing her hands that are sullied with the damned spot that all great Neptune's ocean could not wash away, her doctor and her waiting gentlewoman are sent to tell the audience of her "slumbery agitation. The Theory of the Theatre
In this Pythonesque vision, Lady Macbeth is a vampish sexpot, while her husband is a dim-witted cuckold, less blighted by fatal flaws than fatal dorkiness.
Macbeth is a schemer and plotter who is eventually undone by his own misdeeds.
The local drama club is putting on 'Macbeth' at the Playhouse.
His presence and delivery of the lines encapsulated all my expectations of how Macbeth would act.
As an actress she longed to play one of the meatier roles, like Lady Macbeth.
In fact, books flocked there as martlets did to Macbeth's castle; there was "no jutty frieze or coigne of vantage" but a book had made it his "pendent bed," -- and it appeared The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859
She must curdle the milk, make Macbeth abjure his good qualities, if he is to act as she wishes.
This goes double if I've costumed Lady Macbeth with a black leather miniskirt.
Macbeth cannot contemplate kingship for himself without imagining turning his sword against the king.
The reason Macbeth is more interesting than Richard III is that Macbeth doesn't set out to be evil -- and he retains certain redeeming qualities (his tenderness toward his wife, for instance). So you're thinking of creating a villain ...
Legends of his rise to power and reign are the basis of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth.
While the attendant is gone, Macbeth spouts off about the danger that Banquo poses to Macbeth's position as king.
Macbeth thought for a second, his pupils narrowing to slits.
Her delivery of the scene in which Lady Macbeth unsexes herself to conspire with Macbeth in his becoming king was anti-climatic.
The impiousness of the fishwife's final ambition links her with Marlowe's Faustus as well as with Lady Macbeth.
As the president, his staff and, most significantly, his frequently deranged First Lady pussyfooted around the paneled rooms of his West Coast ranch compound, eavesdropping on each other and then communicating in whispers the latest fragment of update, it began to feel like one of those Kurosawa dramas about feudal lords -- the Macbeth-based Throne of Blood, say, courtesy of FOX. Tom Gliatto: Beyond 24
“She thanked Mr. Warrington, in tones so hollow and tragic, that he started back, and must have upset some of his rappee, for Macbeth sneezed thrice.” The Virginians
She's done all the important Shakespearean roles apart from Lady Macbeth.
'Macbeth' is a set text this year.
I doubt whether the epithet _historical_ can properly apply to the character of Lady Macbeth; for though the subject of the play be taken from history, we never think of her with any reference to historical associations, as we do with regard to Constance, Volumnia, Katherine of Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
They are three sisters who trick Macbeth into believing that he is invincible, which leads to his downfall.
Dr. Fallon forked out which Lady Macbeth asks abnormal energy to take widely separated a delicate inlet which gives her protection, prevalent in Elizabethan culture. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
Throughout the play, Macbeth struggles with the powers of darkness.
Harriet Walter was a wonderful Lady Macbeth: a faintly neurotic society hostess with aristocratic hauteur that did not quite conceal traces of hysteria.
Banquo's ghost was dispensed with, though Ian McKellen's astonishing evocation of Macbeth's mental collapse made any physical manifestation redundant.
The meal was light - perhaps eggs and a posset (hot milk fortified with sugar, spices, eggs, and wine, brandy, or ale, and on one notable occasion with additional soporifics by Lady Macbeth).
As an actress she longed to play one of the meatier roles, like Lady Macbeth.
If Rush Limbaugh, this blatherer ofcontention andvitriolwere merely referringto Jesse MacBeth, why thendidhe use the word soldiers instead of soldier? Take Limbaugh Off the Air in Iraq
_Macbeth_ on the callboard, but Miss Nefer's getting ready for No Great Magic
She was auditioning for the role of Lady Macbeth.
Falstaff going to bed without his cup of sack, or Macbeth fed on bones as marrowless as those of Banquo. Chronicles of the Canongate
Where was a dignified predicament any a singular faced, a eremite visualisation Macbeth felt with such agony in a play's late scenes? Archive 2009-11-01
The poor wee soul is clearly trying to learn, he even took Sarah to see Macbeth so he could learn what he's doing wrong and begin mimicking the good guys for a change. Sources of Authority Ancient and Modern
I'd love to check out MacBeth, considering we sort of have the same name: MacVay in Gaelic is MacBheatha, same as his name (though his was a given name, not a patronymic, and we aren't related). Celebrating Scotland
Julia Gillard aka Lady Macbeth has claimed she was just a part-time "typist" in her LaborConnect
In this critically acclaimed performance, the actor explores and analyses some of Shakespeare's most villainous characters like Lago, the Macbeths, Shylock and Richard III.
His own prose style plays a part in some of the richest characterizations: the essay on Coriolanus is abrasive, that on Macbeth antithetical, on Hamlet inward-looking.
When Macbeth says "light thickens and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood", we get an astonishing image of deepening night; here the rapidly-spoken lines pass virtually unnoticed. Macbeth - review
No one can deny that Macbeth is a ruthless butcher and bloody fiend.
There was more where that came from – plenty more, with Montgomerie doing more stirring than the witches in Macbeth after Pavin announced that Tiger Woods, who has led out the USA pairings on the first day of his last three Ryder Cup appearances, would be paired with Steve Stricker in the third fourball match. Ryder Cup 2010: Colin Montgomerie uses dark arts to steel European team
In the earlier 20th century the play's structural kinship with two plays about regicide, Richard III and, especially, Macbeth, was frequently noted.
Can the reader feel pity and terror for Macbeth?
The terse style of Macbeth had been attributed to him. Times, Sunday Times
Macbeth is a famous tragedy by Shakespeare.
The three witches with their hubbly-bubbliness had disappeared (much to Abu's chagrin because this was the only bit of the play he could quote at me in the car), in their place a demonically possesed child who physically stayed with Macbeth through much of the play. A Babelous Macbeth
He sees, too, the possibilities of the near Future; how from that fine equipoise the soul might pass out into rare manifestations, appearing in the sweetness and simplicity of a little child, in the fearful tumultuousness of a Lady Macbeth, in the passionate tenderness of a The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861
Since all subject matter shrinks to triviality when compared to the cataclysms of the Holocaust and the Gulag, it follows that a tragedy such as Macbeth is of limited relevance to our recent history.
Peter Farbridge is physically commanding as Macbeth - obviously a fine actor - but a little too soft and soft-headed here.
Have you seen that new production of "Macbeth"?
When Macbeth is hunched over, scrawny and half bald he does not radiate a sinister charisma.
McIntosh sees parallels with Lady Macbeth, the Shakespearean villainess who famously asked for male characteristics as she plotted murder.
In the Porter's scene in Act II of "Macbeth," equivocation comes in for a serious rhetorical battering: "Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales and against either scale; who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven. A Blessing—Not a Curse
I'm auditioning for the part of Lady Macbeth.
When Macbeth is hunched over, scrawny and half bald he does not radiate a sinister charisma.
Lady Macbeth feels that if her husband does not enjoy his royalty, then all of their deceit and treachery has been for nothing.
Their production of Macbeth was the most visually striking performance I've ever seen.
We've just reached the summit of Pendle Hill in Lancashire when the image of the three wizened witches from Macbeth skips across my mind's eye.
Above all, Hicks reminds us that Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's greatest ironists.
We became close friends and he once told me that an early application for a grant to produce penicillin on a scale adequate for clinical trial had been turned down by a very high-up committee: wise old greyheads shook (or, as Florey said, perhaps merely wobbled) regretfully from side to side as they pronounced that the future of antibacterial therapy lay with synthetic organic chemicals such as sulphanilamide and not with medieval-sounding fungal and bacterial extractives which may have put them in mind of Macbeth, Act IV, Sc. 1. A Better Mouse Trap
Macbeth is in rep at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, until October 2.
The Ghost of Banquo is more than a figment of Macbeth's imagination: it stands in some way in relation to his conscience.
Before long, he was playing the leads in Hamlet and Macbeth at Scottish Youth Theatre, then turned professional.
The local drama club is putting on 'Macbeth' at the Playhouse.
They are resentment personified, archetypes of men with grudges against the world, who - unlike Macbeth - are thereby predisposed to evil.
It's easier to believe that Macbeth meets three witches in the forest that goad him to regicide than it is to accept that Romeo and Juliet actually love one another.
The local drama club is putting on 'Macbeth' at the Playhouse.
Osbaldistone is? or Macbeth, and all his kernes and galla-glasses, and your awn to boot, Rob, procure him five thousand pounds to answer the bills which fall due ten days hence, were they a’ rouped at the Rob Roy
Diane Fletcher is Lady Macbeth to Urquhart's peerless conniver, and Michael Kitchen does a regal take on Prince Charles. Some Candidates for Election-Week Viewing
I've played Macbeth; you could call him a villain but Shakespeare calls him tragic.
Even the bonnet with the eagle's feather, which Sir Walter Scott induced Kemble to substitute for his "shuttlecock" headdress of ostrich plumes, was held to be inadmissible: the Macbeth of the antiquaries wore a conical iron helmet, and was otherwise arrayed in barbaric armour. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character

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