(Allusion to character in the play)
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Barbara Garson: Macbird
Rupert Croft-Cooke: Banquo's Chair
Igor Primorac: Banquos Geist: Hegels
Theorie der Strafe
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(Allusion to stage direction, I,i)
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Paul McGuire: Enter Three Witches
David Leslie Murray: Enter Three Witches
Kate Gilmore: Enter Three Witches
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What bloody man is that? (I,ii)
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Simon Brett: What Bloody Man Is That?
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The weird sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the sea and land,
Thus do go about, about. (I,iii)
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Charlotte Armstrong: The Case of the Weird
Sisters
Terry Pratchett: Wyrd Sisters
Vivian Vandevelvde: Tales from the Brothers
Grimm and the Sisters Weird
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Two truths are told
As happy prologues to the swelling act
Of the imperial theme. (I,iii)
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Frances A. Yates: Astraea: The Imperial
Theme in the Sixteenth Century
Thomas Kaufmann: Variations on the
Imperial Theme: Studies in Ceremonial Art and
Collecting in the Age of Maximilian II and Rudolf II
|
If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favors nor your hate. (I,iii)


Cawdor Castle
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Frank Wilson Kenyon: The Seeds of Time
Henry Savage: The Seeds of Time
Irene Rathbone: The Seeds of Time
Edward Merrill Root: The Seeds of Time
Arden G. Antony: The Seeds of Time
Ethel Doherty: The Seeds of Time
John Drinkwater: The Seeds of Time
Kay Kenyon: The Seeds of Time
R. S. Allison: The Seeds of Time; Being a
Short History of the Belfast General
and Royal Hospital
Frederic Jameson: The Seeds of Time
Christopher Sexton: The Seeds of Time: The
Life of Sir Macfarlane Burnet
John Wyndham: The Seeds of Time
Kona Khasu: The Seeds of Time: A
Collection of Poems
Barbara Jefferson Christie: Sowing the Seeds
of Time: A History of the Jefferson Family
in the Parishes of Lythe and Hinderwell in
the North Riding of Yorkshire, 1631-1994
Y. S. Brenner: Looking into the Seeds of
Time: The Price of Modern Development
R. S. Allison: The Seeds of Time: Being
a Short History of the Belfast General
and Royal Hospital, 1850/1903
Helen Huntington: Which Grain Will Grow
Don Marion Wolfe: Which Grain Will Grow:
Stories and Sketches of Childhood
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Say from whence
You owe this strange intelligence, or why
Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
With such prophetic greeting? (I,iii)
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Hector Charles Bywater: Strange Intelligence:
Memoirs of Naval Secret Service
|
Banquo. Whither are they vanished?
Macbeth. Into the air; and what seemed
coporeal melted
As breath into the wind. (I,iii)
|
Frederick Franklin Shannon: The Breath in
the Winds and Other Sermons
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And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths. (I,iii)
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T. Ernesto Bethancourt: Instruments of Darkness
Nancy Huston: Instruments of Darkness
Robert Wilson: Instruments of Darkness
Alice Miller: Instruments of Darkness and
Other Stories
James A. Sharpe: Instruments of Darkness:
Witchcraft in Early Modern England
Alfred Price: Instruments of Darkness: The
History of Electronic Warfare
Gary Russell: Dr. Who: Instruments of
Darkness
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He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust. (I,iv)
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Elaine Dewar: Absolute Trust: The
Reichmann's Rise to Wealth and Power
|
Yet I do fear thy
nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way. (I,v)
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E. X. Ferrars: The Milk of Human Kindness
Morna Brown: Milk of Human Kindness
William Campbell Douglass: The Milk of
Human Kindness...Is Not Pasteurized
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We still have judgment here; that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor. This even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poisoned
chalice
To our own lips. (I,vii)
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Sara Woods: Bloody Instructions
Andrew Hammond: The Poisoned Chalice
|
I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people. (I,vii)
|
Richard Lardner Tobin: Golden Opinions
|
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other [side]. (I,vii)
|
Ellis Middleton: Vaulting Ambition
Philip Kitcher: Vaulting Ambition:
Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature
|
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail. (I,vii)
|
Jessica Mann: The Sticking Place
|
The moon is down; I
have not heard the clock. (II,i)
|
John Steinbeck: The Moon Is Down
|
There's husbandry in Heaven;
Their candles are all out. (II,i)
|
M. P. Willcocks: Husbandry in Heaven
| |
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me
clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? (II,i)
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Manning O'Brine: Dagger Before Me
Aaron Hill: Fatal Vision
Joe McGinniss: Fatal Vision
Janet Malcolm: Fatal Vision
Kenneth Fearing: Dagger of the Mind
Bob Shaw: Dagger of the Mind
C. Spinks: Smiosis Marginal Signs and
Trickster: A Dagger of the Mind
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There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one half-world
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,
. . .
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps. (II,i)
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H. Paul Jeffers: Bloody Business
A. E. Roy: The Curtained Sleep
Anthony Schaffer: Withered Murder
Lloyd S. Thompson: Hear Not My Steps
|
Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
Macbeth has murdered sleep,' the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care. (II,ii)
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Margaret Ersine: Sleep No More
Florence Ryerson: Sleep No More
August Derleth: Sleep No More
George Sims: Sleep No More
Sam S. Taylor: Sleep No More
Wetherby Williams: Sleep No More
L. T. C. Rolt: Sleep No More: Railway, Canal
and Other Stories of the Supernatural
Dinah Lampitt: To Sleep No More
George Bankoff: Murdered Sleep
Thomas D. Davis: Murdered Sleep: A Dave
Strickland Mystery
M. C. Munday: The Ravelled Sleeve
|
'Tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil. (II,ii)
|
William E. Rand: The Eye of Childhood
John Welcome: A Painted Devil
Rachel Billington: A Painted Devil
Michael Bedard: Painted Devil
Ruth Rendell: To Fear a Painted Devil
|
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
is left this vault to brag of. (II,iii)
|
Frank Hartman: The Wine of Life
Katherine A. Tingley: The Wine of Life
Arthur John Stringer: The Wine of Life
Lesley Egan: Wine of Life
Julia Baldwin Hazelton,ed: Wine of Life: An
Anthology of Short Stories
Charles Gorham: Wine of Life: A Novel about
Balzac
Jerome P. Seaton: The Wine of Endless Life
Harold J. Morowitz: The Wine of Life and
Other Essays on Societies, Energy and Living Things
|
The expedition of my violent love
Outran the pauser, reason. Here lay Duncan,
His silver skin laced with his golden blood.
(II,iii)
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Jerry Oster: Violent Love
Jack Williamson: Golden Blood
|
Look to the lady. (III,ii)
|
Marjorie Allingham: Look to the Lady
|
Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame,
That darkness does the face of earth entomb,
When living light should kiss it? (II,iv)
|
Edmund Newton Harvey: Living Light
Marian Stinchfield Hopkins: The Living Light
James I. Kimber: Living Light: The Doctrine
of New Truth
Walter W. Judson: Living Light: A Stained
Glass Manual and History
Edythe Draper, comp.: Living Light: Daily
Light in Today's Language
Peg Horsburgh: Living Light: Exploring
Bioluminescence
M. Norvel Young: Living Lights, Shining Stars:
Ten Secrets to Becoming the Light of the World
Muneera Haeri: The Chishtis: A Living Light
Barbara Newman, ed.: Voice of the Living
Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World
John M. Salzer: The Line of Living Light:
Poetry and Prose
|
Is't known who did this more than bloody
deed? (II,iv)
|
Ladd Hamilton: This Bloody Deed: The
Magruder Incident
|
Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
As the weird women promised. (III,i)
|
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly: Weird Women
|
(Allusion to stage directions, III,i)
|
Hurst Marshall: Enter Two Murderers
Anthony Boucher: Exeunt Murderers
|
For I must become a borrower of the night
For a dark hour or twain. (III,i)
|
Elizabeth Peters: Borrower of the Night
|
Duncan is in his grave;
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;
Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor
poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,
Can touch him further. (III,ii)
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Richard Wiseman: Duncan Is in His Grave
Margaret Wynne Nevinson: Life's Fitful Fever
Kate Everest: Life's Fitful Fever
Evelyn Payne: Malice Domestic
William Roughead: Malice Domestic
Mollie Hardwick: Malice Domestic
Elinore Denniston: Malice Domestic
Sara Woods: Malice Domestic
Elizabeth Peters, pres.: Malice Domestic
Mary Higgins Clark, pres.: Malice Domestic 2
Nancy Pickard, pres.: Malice Domestic 3
Carolyn Hart, pres.: Malice Domestic 4
Phyllis A. Whitney, pres.: Malice Domestic 5
Anne Perry, pres.: Malice Domestic 6
|
Ere to black Hecate's summons
The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums
Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done
A deed of dreadful note. (III,ii)
|
August Derleth: Night's Yawning Peal, a
Ghostly Company
|
Light thickens, and the crow
Makes wing to the rooky wood.
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;
Whiles night's black agents to their preys do
rouse. (III,ii)
|
Ngaio Marsh: Light Thickens
Anthony Harris: Night's Black Agents
Fritz Leiber: Night's Black Agents
|
Banquo. It will be rain tonight.
First Murderer. Let it come down. (III,iii)
|
Paul Bowles: Let It Come Down
|
Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer's cloud,
Without our special wonder? (III,iv)
|
Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be?
Keith Fleming: Can Such Things Be? The
Weird of the Beresfords: A
Study in Occult Will-power
Jill Tattersall: A Summer's Cloud
J. Francis McComas, comp.: Special
Wonder: The Anthony Boucher Memorial
Anthology of Fantasy and Science Fiction
|
It will have blood, they say; blood will have
blood. (III,iv)
|
R. M. Litchfield: Blood Will Have Blood
Linda Barnes: Blood Will Have Blood
|
Upon the corner of the moon
There hangs a vaporous drop profound;
I'll catch it ere it comes to ground. (III,v)
|
Sheila Steen: Corner of the Moon
Shirley Barker: Corner of the Moon
Enid Martell Olson, comp.: Corner of the
Moon: Folk Tales for Reading Pleasure
|
Double, double; toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble. (IV,i)


Alexandre-Marie Colin:
The Three Witches from "Macbeth"
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Mary-Kate Olsen: Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Leon Feuchtwanger: Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Shirley Lueth: Bubble, Bubble, Toil and
Trouble
James Saunders: Double, Double
Ellery Queen: Double, Double
Freda M. Kelsall & H. N. Gibson: Double,
Double
Michael Jan Friedman: Double, Double
Eric Elice & Roger Rees: Double Double
Emma Lathen: Double, Double, Oil and
Trouble
Thomas R. Brooks: Toil and Trouble: A
History of American Labor
Herbert Otto Roth: Toil and Trouble:
The Struggle for a Better Life in New Zealand
Joe L. Kincheloe: Toil and Trouble: Good
Work, Smart Workers, and the
Integration of Academic and Vocational Education
George F. G. Stanley: Toil and Trouble:
Military Expeditions to Red River
Government of Saskatchewan: Toil and
Trouble: An Oral History of Industrial
Unrest in the Estevan-Bienfait Coalfields
Richard A. Liroff: Reforming Air Pollution
Regulation: The Toil and Trouble of
EPA's Bubble
Bernard K. Johnpoll, ed.: A Documentary
History of the Communist Party in
America: Toil and Trouble
Ralph W. Andrews: Timber: Toil and
Trouble in the Big Woods
P. B. Arthiabah: Half a Century of Toil,
Trouble and Progress: The History of
the Trade Union Congress of Ghana, 1939-1995
Ken Radford: Fire Burn: Tales of Witchery
John Dickson Carr: Fire, Burn!
Julie Lugo Cerra: Fire Burn and Cauldron
Bubble: A Collection of Well Used,
Time-sensitive Recipes Reflecting the
Diversity of an American Family, and That Family's Friends
Bryan Flynn: And Cauldron Bubble
Leslie Reid: Cauldron Bubble
N. A. Temple-Ellis: Cauldron Bubble
George Goodchild: Cauldron Bubble
|
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog. (IV,i)
|
Shlomit Auciello: Eye of Newt, or How To
Eat Well in Hard Times, Avoid an Inflated
Bill, and Stay Off the Dole
Al G. Manning: Eye of Newt in My Martini:
A Certified Public Accountant Turned
Occultist Tells Why and How
|
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes. (IV,i)
|
Agatha Christie: By the Pricking of My
Thumbs
Norah Lofts: The Pricking of My Thumbs
H. C. Branson: The Pricking Thumb
Ray Bradbury: Something Wicked This Way
Comes
Stuart Hamill: Something Wicked
E. X. Ferrars: Something Wicked
Hugh McCutcheon: Something Wicked
Charles Runyon: Something Wicked
Carolyn Hart: Something Wicked
Jo Beverley: Something Wicked
Jennifer Rowe: Something Wicked
Dana Jurcic: By the Itching of My Nose
Something Wicked This Way Goes
|
Macbeth. How now, you secret, black, and
midnight hags!
What is't you do?
Witches.
A deed without a name. (IV,i)
|
Joan Fleming: Midnight Hag
Eden Phillpotts: A Deed without a Name
Dorothy Bowers: Deed without a Name
Andrew Sanders: A Deed without a Name:
The Witch in Society and History
|
Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth. (IV,i)
|
Adrienne Rich: Of Woman Born: Motherhood
as Experience and Institution
Carol Ginandes: Of Women Born:
Photographs
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski: Not of Woman
Born: Representations of Caesarian
Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Constance Ash, ed.: Not of Woman Born
|
What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom? (IV,i)
|
Robert Cromie: The Crack of Doom
Hugh Edwards: Crack of Doom
Leo Bruce: Crack of Doom
Gilbert Hackforth-Jones: Crack of Doom
|
(Allusion to stage direction, IV,ii)
|
R. Lance Hill: Enter Murderers
Henry Slesar: Enter Murderers
Edward Bierstadt: Enter Murderers
Ngaio Marsh: Enter a Murderer
|
All my pretty ones?
Did you say all? O hell-kite! All? (IV,iii)
|
Roger Hall: All My Pretty ones
Anne Sexton: All My Pretty Ones
Dorothy Eden: Pretty Ones
|
Macbeth
Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above
Put on their instruments. (IV,iii)
|
Hugh Massingham: Ripe for Shaking
|
Out, damned spot! out, I say! (V,i)
|
Nancy Spain: Out, Damned Tot!
Herbert Adams: Damned Spot
|
Yet who would have thought the old man to
have had so much blood in him. (V,i)
|
Zelda Popkin: So Much Blood
Bruno Fischer: So Much Blood
Simon Brett: So Much Blood
|
Here's the smell of the blood still; all the
perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little
hand. (V,i)
|
Sara Woods: Perfumes of Arabia
Evelyn Dewar: Perfumes of Arabia
|
Now does he feel
His secret murders sticking on his hands. (V,ii)
|
Anne E. Schwartz: The Man Who Could Not
Kill Enough: The Secret Murders of
Milwaukee's Jeffrey Dahmer
|
I have lived long enough. My way of life
Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf. (V,iii)
|
Mort Friedlander: The Yellow Leaf
Hasan Terani: The Yellow Leaf
Douglas C. Jones: Season of Yellow Leaf
|
Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it. (V,iii)
|
George Hayden: Throw Physic to the Dogs
|
She should have died hereafter. (V,v)
|
Alfred Clark: He Should Have Died Hereafter
Cyril Hare: He Should Have Died Hereafter
|
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. (V,v)


Alexander Johnston: Macbeth
|
Bonnie L. Heintz et al., comps.: Tomorrow,
and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
M. Bernard Eldershaw: Tomorrow and
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
David G. Yellin & Marie Connors, eds.:
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Philip Barry: To-morrow and To-morrow
Brenda Cole: Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Charles Sheffield: Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Damon Knight, ed.: Tomorrow and
Tomorrow: Ten Tales of the Future
Mary Petty: This Petty Pace
Anthony Rawlins: This Petty Pace
B. Pinkerton: This Petty Pace
James W. B. Laing: Recorded Time
Pamela Gray Ahearn: All Our Yesterdays
Stuart Buchan: All Our Yesterdays
Natalia Ginzburg: All Our Yesterdays
Marian Gleason: All Our Yesterdays
Robert B. Parker: All Our Yesterdays
George Pattulo: All Our Yesterdays
John Peel: All Our Yesterdays
Enid H. Pierce: All Our Yesterdays
Declan Hasset: All Our Yesterdays
H. M. Tomlinson: All Our Yesterdays
Evelyn Spitzer Drennen: All Our Yesterdays
Junji Kinoshita: All Our Yesterdays
Joseph Weeks: All Our Yesterdays
Charles Barr: All Our Yesterdays: 90 Years
of British Cinema
Brian Inglis: All Our Yesterdays: How the
Newsreels Saw Them from Munich to the Berlin Airlift
Brian Yu: All Our Yesterdays: A Song of
My Parents
Nate Winfield, comp.: All Our Yesterdays:
A Brief History of Chapel Hill
James O. Robertson & Janet C. Robertson:
All Our Yesterdays: A Century of Family
Life in an American Small Town
Manès Sperber: All Our Yesterdays, Vol. 1:
God's Water Carriers
Manès Sperber: All Our Yesterdays, Vol. 2:
The Unheeded Warning
Manès Sperber: All Our Yesterdays, Vol. 3:
Until My Eyes Are Closed with Shards
Harry Warner, Jr.: All Our Yesterdays: An
Informal History of Science Fiction
Fandom in the Forties
Lawrence Wakefield: All Our Yesterdays:
A Narrative History of Traverse City
Culross Historical Society, comp.: All Our
Yesterdays: A History of Culross Township
Richard Wellington Boynton: Boynton Family:
All Our Yesterday's Gone, Come On Go Back
James & Margaret Wilson: All Our
Yesterdays: A Genealogy, History,
Directory of the Killorens, Killorans,
Killorins, Belledune, Richmond, Erinsville
Frank B. Woodford: All Our Yesterdays: A
Brief History of Detroit
Illustrated Life Rhodesia: All Our Yesterdays,
1890-1970: A Pictorial Review of
Rhodesia's Story from the Best of
Illustrated Life Rhodesia
Ian Bradley et alia: All Our Yesterdays:
Pictorial Record of the London Borough of
Sutton over the Last Century
John W. Ashbury: ...And All Our Yesterdays:
A Chronicle of Frederick County, Maryland
Edgar Andrew Collard: 100 More Tales from
All Our Yesterdays
Beatrice Ann Carlson Stegeman: Yesterdays
and All Our Yesterdays: Historical
Introductions, Feminist Statements, and
Primary Sources for Metro-East Il
Alistair MacLean: The Way to Dusty Death
Hugh McCutcheon: To Dusty Death
Clifton Robbins: Dusty Death
Michael Burning & Althea Grey: Dusty Death
Osmington Mills: Dusty Death
Lee Thayer: Dusty Death
M. Chandrasoma: Out, Out, Brief Candle
Lee Thayer: Out, Brief Candle
John Rosenberg: Out, Brief Candle
Alan Lenox-Short: Brief Candle
Charles B. Garrigus: Brief Candle
Martin Boris: Brief Candle
Andrew Spiller: Brief Candle
Richard Barksdale Harwell: Brief Candle:
The Confederate Theatre
Derek Bourne-Jones: Brief Candle: Poetic
Study of Lady Jane Grey, 1537-54
Aldous Huxley: Brief Candles
Francis Gaite: Brief Candles
Henry Taylor: Brief Candles: 101 Clerihews
Robert B. Parker: Walking Shadow
E. W. White: Walking Shadows
H. Child: A Poor Player
Lesley Krueger: Poor Player
Stanley Heather: That Struts and Frets
R. P. Norhona: A Tale Told by an Idiot
Rose Macaulay: Told by an Idiot
Ted Hughes: Four Tales Told by an Idiot
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
Brian Rotman: Signifying Nothing: The
Semiotics of Zero
|
(Allusion to stage direction, V,vii)
|
Robert I. Alotta: Another Part of the Field:
Philadelphia's American Revolution, 1777-78
|
I bear a charméd life, which must not yield
To one of woman born. (V,viii)
|
M. C. Varley: A Charmed Life
Mary McCarthy: A Charmed Life
Vince Cabretti: A Charmed Life
Anne Lacey: A Charmed Life
Jack Butler Yeats: The Charmed Life
Bernard Taylor: Charmed Life
Diana Wynne Jones: Charmed Life
Barbara Corbett: No Ordinary Childhood:
Barbara Corbett's Celebration of a
Charmed Life in the 1920s
Alfred Allan Lewis: Man of the World:
Herbert Bayard Swope, a Charmed Life
of Pulitzer Prizes, Poker and Politics
Victoria Moran: Creating a Charmed Life:
Sensible, Spiritual Secrets Every Busy
Woman Should Know
|
Lay on, Macduff,
And damned be him that first cries 'Hold,
enough!' (V,viii)
|
Charlotte Armstrong: Lay on, Macduff!
Peter Harris: Cry Hold!
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