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And...discussion of Act 5, overall feelings thoughts etc etc can happen here

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Found it.

The famous "sound and fury" comes from Macbeth's soliloquy after Lady Macbeth's death. Modernized lines in some editions (act 5, scene 5):

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,

"She should have died hereafter" is a trouble. Check the original 1623 folio can be one way to reason it:

She should haue dy'de heereafter;
There would haue beene a time for such a word:
To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow, . . .

Die, dye, dy'de, died, dyed were mixedly used in the 1623 folio, e.g. "the White Rose that I weare, be dy'de" from Henry VI, Part 3 as a pun on died and dyed.

Treat dy'de as dyed (and a pun on died) may link to what Lady Macbeth does in her sleepwalking (act 5, scene 1):

GENTLEWOMAN.
It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands: I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour.

LADY MACBETH.
Yet here's a spot. . . . Out damned spot: out I say.

Lady Macbeth should have died and dyed (with "damned spot") hereafter.

Her hands were permanently, in her mind, dyed with the blood of Duncan, and as such with the mark of her deceit.

This last act was very exciting. Morbid disturbing, haunting. And then a fantastic sword fight!

What a mess.

Still thinking on it.

Good to see Jim and James made it to this thread.

Is Marlin anywhere?

Tomorrow three times. So many threes!