Macbeth was a play written by famed Earth playwright William Shakespeare.
Macbeth is a tragedy, dealing with the title character, a nobleman of Scotland. Acting on the prophecies of three witches (and spurred on by his ambitious wife, Lady Macbeth), Macbeth assassinates King Duncan to ascend to the throne of Scotland. However, his guilt over committing murder to advance his position leads to madness and his own destruction. Like all of Shakespeare's works, Macbeth was performed throughout modern Earth history and well into the Federation era.
One notable performance was by a touring theatrical company headed by Anton Karidian. (TOS: "The Conscience of the King")
After watching Damar make a speech in 2374, Jack quoted a line from Macbeth. (DS9: "Statistical Probabilities")
Additional references
Memorable Quotes
"When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning or in rain?"
"When the hurlyburly's done, when the battle's lost and won."
"That will be ere the set of sun."
- - The Witches
"Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; stop up the access and passage to remorse that no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between the effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts and take my milk for gall..."
- - Lady Macbeth
"Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appalls me? What hands are here? Ha! They pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red."
- - Macbeth
"Round about the cauldron go; in the poisoned entrails throw. Toad, under that cold stone days and nights has thirty-one. Swelter'd venom sleeping got, boil thou first i' the charmed pot."
"Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble."
- - The Witches
"Methought I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!'"
- - Macbeth
External Links
| Selected works of William Shakespeare |
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| All's Well That Ends Well • As You Like It • Hamlet • Henry IV, Part I • Henry IV, Part II • Henry V • Henry VI, Part I • Henry VI, Part II • Henry VI, Part III • Henry VIII • Julius Caesar • King John • King Lear • Love's Labour's Lost • Macbeth • Measure for Measure • The Merchant of Venice • A Midsummer Night's Dream • Much Ado About Nothing • Othello • Richard II • Richard III • Romeo and Juliet • The Tempest • Timon of Athens • Twelfth Night, or What You Will • sonnets |