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Shakespeare play about a power-hungry Scottish nobleman
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macbeth
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Macbeth is an opera in three acts, with music by Ernest Bloch to a libretto by Edmond Fleg , after the eponymous play of William Shakespeare . Bloch composed the opera between 1904 and 1906, but it did not receive its first performance until 30 November ...
Usage examples of macbeth.
Jason and Kyle are starting to believe that, Macbeth observed quietly.
Id rather have gone to that science fiction film with Macbeth and Jason and Kyle.
They could have mentioned it to Macbeth, who, in turn, could have told Tony.
Kyle and Jason waved to him as Macbeth eased the vehicle back out of the drive.
The case of the murder of King Duncan of Scotland by Macbeth and his wife belongs to a different class of crime.
In Macbeth and his wife we have a perfect instance of the latter class.
In the minds of Macbeth and his wife the suggestion of murder is originally an auto-suggestion, coming to them independently of each other as soon as they learn from the witches that Macbeth is one day to be a king.
What Macbeth and his wife lack at first as thorough-going murderers is that complete insensibility to taking human life that marks the really ruthless assassin.
Lady Macbeth has the stronger will of the two for the commission of the deed.
It is doubtful whether without her help Macbeth would ever have undertaken it.
At the same time Lady Macbeth affects to swoon away in the presence of so awful a crime.
But, like so many criminals, Macbeth finds it impossible to rest on his first success in crime.
In the murder of Duncan, it is the first of these two states of mind to which Macbeth and his wife have only partially attained.
There are occasions when those feelings of compunction which troubled Macbeth and his wife are wellnigh proof against the utmost powers of suggestion, or, as in the case of Hubert and Prince Arthur, compel the criminal to desist from his enterprise.
Done correctly, Macbeth was one of the greatest tragedies, swift and dark, with death and battle and witchcraft bound together in wonderful poetry, spinning one into the story of a man and woman who destroyed themselves.