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Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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it was amazing
bookshelves: shakespeare, plays, classics, favorites, history-europe

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Reading Progress

October 3, 2011 – Shelved
February 12, 2014 – Started Reading
April 23, 2014 –
page 133
44.04% "Lesser than Macbeth and greater!
Not so happy, yet much happier!"
April 23, 2014 –
page 135
44.7% "The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,
And these are of them. Whither are they vanished?"
April 23, 2014 –
page 146
48.34% "Unsex me here!

- can only a man commit murder?

Or is there another level of meaning here?"
April 23, 2014 –
page 148
49.01% "or is it Macbeth being 'unsexed'? A temporary role reversal?"
April 23, 2014 –
page 155
51.32% "Finally, his first true soliloquy!

I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o’er-leaps itself
And falls on the other. (side of the horse!)

What a bad rider you must be Macbeth, overzealous and over-cautious in turn."
April 23, 2014 –
page 158
52.32% "So, while Duncan is . . . eating his "last supper", Macbeth plays Judas, for to Judas Jesus at the Last Supper said: "That thou doest, do quickly" (John 13:27)"
April 23, 2014 –
page 160
52.98% "Macbeth: ’Twas a rough night.

You don’t say??"
April 23, 2014 –
page 162
53.64% "sternest goodnight, indeed. I will now always think of owls as stern!

Hark!
It was the owl that shriek’d,
the fatal bellman,
Which gives the stern’st good-night."
April 23, 2014 –
page 163
53.97% "Unbearable pathos! When M questions, half mad:

Wherefore could not I pronounce ‘Amen�?
‘Amen� Stuck in my throat."
April 23, 2014 –
page 165
54.64% "Macbeth hath murder’d sleep!
Macbeth shall sleep no more!"
April 23, 2014 –
page 170
56.29% "I am spooked, Johnson!

"He that peruses Shakespeare [in these lines], looks round alarmed, and starts to find himself alone."

~ Johnson"
April 24, 2014 –
page 172
56.95% "Where we are,
There’s daggers in men’s smiles.

Away!"
April 24, 2014 –
page 173
57.28% "To think Coleridge found the Porter’s speech ‘disgusting� and wrote it off as 'an interpolation of the actors�!"
April 24, 2014 –
page 197
65.23% "Why a Third Murderer?"
April 25, 2014 –
page 208
68.87% "And you all know, security
Is mortals� chiefest enemy."
April 25, 2014 –
page 213
70.53% "Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble!"
April 25, 2014 –
page 214
70.86% "sssss.... Something wicked this way comes!"
April 25, 2014 –
page 215
71.19% "ENTS! ENTS! There are ENTS in this play!"
April 25, 2014 –
page 229
75.83% "Yawn?

Act IV, Scene 3 � Is generally condemned by critics: e.g. 'The only tedious one in the play�(E.K.C.); 'the dialogue is dull and forced� and 'the earlier part... is a perfunctory paraphrase from Holander�."
April 25, 2014 –
page 232
76.82% "description

Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
"
April 26, 2014 –
page 279
92.38% "Hail, King of Scotland!"
April 27, 2014 – Shelved as: shakespeare
April 27, 2014 – Shelved as: plays
April 27, 2014 – Shelved as: classics
April 27, 2014 – Shelved as: favorites
April 27, 2014 – Shelved as: history-europe
April 27, 2014 – Finished Reading

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