Caption reads: "If it were done, when 'tis done, 'twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence and catch With his surcease, success : But in these cases We ...

Michael Boyd:Macbeth starts off as the brightest, and best, and the nearest, and the dearest to Duncan. And then he falls. Michael Boyd:This first soliloquy, it reminds me of "to be or not to be ...

How important a theme is the contrast between light and darkness, and how does it relate to the kind of choice that Macbeth was speaking about in his soliloquy, ‘If it were done’? This short ...