Watch Lady Macbeth goad Macbeth into killing Duncan in a film adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth
Learn about how Lady Macbeth goads her husband into fulfilling his oath to kill Duncan in William Shakespeare's Macbeth; an excerpt of Act I, scene 7, from a 1964 film produced by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Transcript
LADY MACBETH: I have given suck, and know
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.
MACBETH: If we should fail?
LADY MACBETH: We fail?
But screw your courage to the stickingplace,
And we'll not fail.
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.
MACBETH: If we should fail?
LADY MACBETH: We fail?
But screw your courage to the stickingplace,
And we'll not fail.
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