![]() ![]() Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Stay tuned on social media in the coming days as we explore more sensational soliloquies. How to talk about climate change in way that makes a difference by Rebecca Huntley is available now in all good bookshops. Teachers: Check out Macbeth: The (Socially Distanced) Rehearsal, a one-hour video for classrooms. Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Come, thick night,Īnd pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,Īnd take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,Īnd fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Maybe Macbeth should have wished to be more like her?” But the filthy witness remains, stained, never to be. Whereas in fact she clearly wore the pants in the relationship at that point. I wash, I scrub, I tear at the flesh on my hands, trying desperately to cleanse myself of the blood. ![]() She is asking the spirits to replace her breast milk for gall. Huntley first read the soliloquy as a teenager and, even then, she recalls “the irony struck me that Lady Macbeth is asking to be made strong by becoming more manly. AN EDITED SCRIPT COMPRISING EXTRACTS FROM MACBETH ACT 1 SCENES 5 AND 7. “It’s a fascinating contrast to the ball-busting tongue lashing she gives her husband when he starts to have second thoughts before the murder of Duncan.” RSC Associate Schools Playmaking Festival 2018. “She’s basically doing the Shakespearean equivalent of psyching herself up in front of a mirror like people do before a prize fight or a TED talk or a stand-up gig,” says researcher and writer Rebecca Huntley. The words she unleashes conjure up a heady mix of ambition, violence and supernatural malevolence. If there was any doubt about the depths of Lady Macbeth’s depravity, those are swept away in her soliloquy in Act 1 Scene 5. Particularly in the first two Acts, Lady Macbeths speech had been fiery blank verse the strong rhythms reflecting her strong, determined grasp of reality. Which Shakespeare soliloquy blows your mind? Share your favourite on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn. Here’s the second from their bunch of 10 classics. We asked an expert panel to cherry pick some of their favourite soliloquies.
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