Evidence I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on th'other -- / [Enter Lady Macbeth] / How now? What news? (Act 1 Scene 7 ...

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 ...