Macbeth · William Shakespeare · Act 5, Scene 5

Macbeth: "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow"

Characters
Macbeth
Length
90 words, 1 min spoken
 
Male role
 
Drama

The situation

Macbeth has just been told the Queen is dead.

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The text

MacbethShe 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 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.

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