...once start11 me. [Enter Seyton.] Wherefore was that cry? SEYTON The Queen, my lord, is dead. MACBETH She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word;12 Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty13 pace from day to day, 20 To the...

...Seyton) 92 SEYTON: MACBETH: MESSENGER: MACBETH: MESSENGER: MACBETH: MESSENGER: MACBETH: Why was that cry? The Queen, my lord, is dead. She should have died...hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of...

...slaughterous thoughts Cannot once start me. Wherefore was that cry SEYTON The Queen my Lord is dead MACBETH She should have died hereafter There would have been a time for such a word Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow 81 To the last syllable of recorded time And all our yesterdays...

...death and his nihilism emerges as an explicit position: SEYTON. The queen, my lord, is dead. MACBETH. She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word — Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable...

...depth of his obsession with the future; it is almost comic in its blunt, witty, callous extremism: "She should have died hereafter: / There would have been a time for such a word" ([ie, as "dead" — V, v, 16] — V, v, 17-18). The soliloquy is further evidence of his insensitivity...

...is most properly called "The Evil" but also that might is not right and that tomorrow is a chimera: She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable...

...vermag ihr Tod Trauer bei ihm auszulösen. Er wirkt völlig gleichgültig, gefühlskalt. Sein Ausspruch "She should have died hereafter:/ There would have been a time for such a word" (V. v. 17-18) bezeugt seine Gefühls-, ja beinahe Teilnahmslosigkeit hinsichtlich ihres Todes; immerhin...

...The cry of women offstage, mourning Lady Macbeth, is set against Macbeth 's own aridity of response: She should have died hereafter: There would have been a time for such a word. (5.5.17-18) The suffering of the speech that follows has in it nothing so intense as agony, only a...

...lord, is dead." Then come the ten lines spoken by Macbeth that I am going to discuss. They begin by: She should have died hereafter, There would have been a time for such a word. The lines that follow are of the improvised free-association kind typical of Shakespearian monologues...