george bernard shaw said what's done is done in macbeth.
george bernard shaw said what's done is done in macbeth.
who said what's done is done in macbeth?
george bernard shaw
duncan hears about macbeth's victory and is brought the thane of cawdor who, deemed to be a traitor because he has allied himself with the norse invaders, is stripped of his title and executed. the king orders his servants to take the title of thane of cawdor to macbeth, who reacts uncertainly. macbeth sends a message ahead to his wife, lady macbeth, telling her about the witches' prophecies. lady macbeth then prays to the dark spirits in the village church, asking them for guidance. when macbeth returns, and tells her that duncan will stay one night as their guest, she urges macbeth to kill the king to fulfill the prophecy made by the witches. duncan arrives at the village and a feast is being held, where the king pronounces malcolm as his heir. macbeth still hesitates and lady macbeth persuades him to commit the deed, while she slips a sleeping potion to the king's servants. after the feast ends, macbeth sees the ghost of one of the dead boy soldiers who gives him a dagger and leads him towards duncan's tent. macbeth brutally slays duncan. malcolm enters the tent and, seeing what macbeth has done, flees in fear. shaken, macbeth goes to his wife and gives her the dagger he has used to kill the king. lady macbeth rebukes him, saying that he should have left it in the tent and she goes herself to place the dagger in the hands of the sleeping chamberlains. later she meets macbeth in the church where they both wash the blood from their hands and she tells him that the water has washed their deed away.
macbeth (2015 film)
in modern times, dorothy dunnett's novel "king hereafter" aims to portray a historical macbeth, but proposes that macbeth and his rival and sometime ally thorfinn of orkney are one and the same (thorfinn is his birth name and macbeth his baptismal name). john cargill thompson's play "macbeth speaks 1997", a reworking of his earlier "macbeth speaks", is a monologue delivered by the historical macbeth, aware of what shakespeare and posterity have done to him. scottish author nigel tranter based one of his historical novels, "macbeth the king", on the historical figure. david greig's 2010 play "dunsinane" takes macbeth's downfall at dunsinane as its starting point, with his just-ended reign portrayed as long and stable in contrast to malcolm's. british touring shakespeare also produced in 2010 "a season before the tragedy of macbeth" by dramatist gloria carreño describing events from the murder of "lord gillecomgain", gruoch macduff's first husband, to the fateful letter in the first act of shakespeare's tragedy
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