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Listen to Shakespeare's Macbeth suffering pangs of guilt for a murder encouraged by Lady Macbeth

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Learn about the psychological toll exacted on Macbeth by his murder of Duncan in Act II, scene 2, of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth.
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Transcript

MACBETH: Methought I heard a voice cry
"Sleep no more!
Macbeth doth murder sleep"--the innocent sleep,
Sleep knits up the raveled sleeve of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast--

LADY MACBETH: What do you mean?

MACBETH: Still it cried "Sleep no more?" to all the house:
"Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor
Shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more."
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