What is Shakespeare?: An Introduction to the Great Plays
What is Shakespeare?: An Introduction to the Great Plays
Lucius Adelno Sherman
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beth, foreseeing the retribution and the end, will begin to walk in her sleep. Macbeth, before he leaves her, will send his court physician to treat her malady. Through occasion of the doctor's presence, we may enable the audience to study her again, and know what sufferings she is undergoing. The scene, though great in possibilities, is not difficult to con- struct, and will be easily intelligible to the reader. The climax Of course Shakespeare's climax of 'the waS*^ smell of blood still,' cou...ld never have been scene. reached by another workman. How much it tells of an exquisite nature, born for the best and noblest living, and unequal utterly to the burdens of remorse! Lady Macbeth believed that, might she but make her husband king, she could pay the price. But she has lost her soul, and her husband's love, and all her peace of mind ; and she has dreaded the vengeance of Scotland so poignantly as to have be- come virtually insane. Macbeth, on hearing of the approach of the Eng- lish army, withdraws from the campaign against his revolted thanes to Dunsinane, where Lady Macbeth is staying, and intrenches himself.
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