When Only the Original Will Do: "Macbeth"
"Macbeth," Act 5 Scene 5:"Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow"
(Spoken by Macbeth)
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. 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,
Signifying nothing."
"Macbeth", by William Shakespeare
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(Spoken by Macbeth)
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. 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,
Signifying nothing."
"Macbeth", by William Shakespeare
•
"Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow"
Soliloquy, Modern Translation:
"How the days stretched out -
each one the same as the one before,
and they would continue to do so, tediously, until the end of history.
And every day we have lived has been the last day of some other fool's life,
each day a dot of candle-light showing him the way to his death-bed.
Blow the short candle out:
life was no more than a walking shadow- a poor actor -
who goes through all the emotions in
one hour on the stage and then bows out.
It was a story told by an idiot, full of noise and passion,
but meaningless."
- http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/soliloquies/macbeth-tomorrow.htm
Some things just can't be improved upon... - CP
Soliloquy, Modern Translation:
"How the days stretched out -
each one the same as the one before,
and they would continue to do so, tediously, until the end of history.
And every day we have lived has been the last day of some other fool's life,
each day a dot of candle-light showing him the way to his death-bed.
Blow the short candle out:
life was no more than a walking shadow- a poor actor -
who goes through all the emotions in
one hour on the stage and then bows out.
It was a story told by an idiot, full of noise and passion,
but meaningless."
- http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/soliloquies/macbeth-tomorrow.htm
Some things just can't be improved upon... - CP
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