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->'''First Witch''': Where hath thou been, sister?
->'''Second Witch''': Killing swine.
->'''First Witch''': Where thou sister, sister?
->'''Third Witch''': A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap and munched and munched and munched. 'Give me' quoth I. 'Aroint thee, witch' the rump-fed ronyon cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o'the tiger, but in a sieve I'll thither sail, And like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do and I'll do.
->'''Second Witch''': Killing swine.
->'''First Witch''': Where thou sister, sister?
->'''Third Witch''': A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap and munched and munched and munched. 'Give me' quoth I. 'Aroint thee, witch' the rump-fed ronyon cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o'the tiger, but in a sieve I'll thither sail, And like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do and I'll do.
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->'''First Witch''': Where hath thou been, sister?
->'''Secondsister?\\
'''Second Witch''': Killingswine.
->'''Firstswine.\\
'''First Witch''': Where thou sister,sister?
->'''Thirdsister?\\
'''Third Witch''': A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap and munched and munched and munched. 'Give me' quoth I. 'Aroint thee, witch' the rump-fed ronyon cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o'the tiger, but in a sieve I'll thither sail, And like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do and I'll do.
->'''Second
'''Second Witch''': Killing
->'''First
'''First Witch''': Where thou sister,
->'''Third
'''Third Witch''': A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap and munched and munched and munched. 'Give me' quoth I. 'Aroint thee, witch' the rump-fed ronyon cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o'the tiger, but in a sieve I'll thither sail, And like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do and I'll do.
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->'''Lennox:''' The night has been unruly. Where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down and, as they
say, Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death, And prophesying, with accents terrible,
Of dire combustion and confused events New hatched to th' woeful time. The obscure bird
Clamored the livelong night. Some say the Earth Was feverous and did shake.
->'''Macbeth:''' [[{{Understatement}} T'was a rough night]].
say, Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death, And prophesying, with accents terrible,
Of dire combustion and confused events New hatched to th' woeful time. The obscure bird
Clamored the livelong night. Some say the Earth Was feverous and did shake.
->'''Macbeth:''' [[{{Understatement}} T'was a rough night]].
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->'''Lennox:''' The night has been unruly. Where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down and, as they
they\\
say, Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death, And prophesying, with accentsterrible,
terrible,\\
Of dire combustion and confused events New hatched to th' woeful time. The obscurebird
bird\\
Clamored the livelong night. Some say the Earth Was feverous and didshake.
->'''Macbeth:'''shake.\\
'''Macbeth:''' [[{{Understatement}} T'was a rough night]].
say, Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death, And prophesying, with accents
Of dire combustion and confused events New hatched to th' woeful time. The obscure
Clamored the livelong night. Some say the Earth Was feverous and did
->'''Macbeth:'''
'''Macbeth:''' [[{{Understatement}} T'was a rough night]].
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* The second conversation with the Wyrd Sisters is possibly the [[{{Pun}} weirdest]] dialogue in any Shakespearean play ever.
->'''First Witch''': Where hath thou been, sister?
->'''Second Witch''': Killing swine.
->'''First Witch''': Where thou sister, sister?
->'''Third Witch''': A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap and munched and munched and munched. 'Give me' quoth I. 'Aroint thee, witch' the rump-fed ronyon cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o'the tiger, but in a sieve I'll thither sail, And like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do and I'll do.
** So basically, the first witch asks her sisters where they've been, one of them says she's been slaughtering pigs and the other says she got into a fight over chestnuts with a sailor's wife and is going to kill her husband because she wouldn't share her nuts with her, and both of her sisters think that this is perfectly rational. Seems like Witches are nuts.
->'''First Witch''': Where hath thou been, sister?
->'''Second Witch''': Killing swine.
->'''First Witch''': Where thou sister, sister?
->'''Third Witch''': A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap and munched and munched and munched. 'Give me' quoth I. 'Aroint thee, witch' the rump-fed ronyon cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o'the tiger, but in a sieve I'll thither sail, And like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do and I'll do.
** So basically, the first witch asks her sisters where they've been, one of them says she's been slaughtering pigs and the other says she got into a fight over chestnuts with a sailor's wife and is going to kill her husband because she wouldn't share her nuts with her, and both of her sisters think that this is perfectly rational. Seems like Witches are nuts.
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* Macduff's conversation with Malcolm is darkly funny, in the way Malcolm makes himself out to be a CompleteMonster who would make an [[FromBadToWorse even worse tyrant]] than Macbeth, just to make sure that Macduff cares about Scotland and not just getting rid of Macbeth because he doesn't like him. Macduff, ever ThePollyana, simply justifies each of Malcolm's claims about himself with things like "If you're that horny then fine, when you're king you'll have all the ladies, if you're greedy, don't worry, you'll have more than you can spend" before finally just giving up and deciding to kill Malcolm who then answers that he was just kidding. Macduff is understandably relieved but has had such an adventurous few minutes that his head's spinning.
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* Macduff's conversation with Malcolm is darkly funny, in the way Malcolm makes himself out to be a CompleteMonster who would make an [[FromBadToWorse even worse tyrant]] than Macbeth, just to make sure that Macduff cares about Scotland and not just getting rid of Macbeth because he doesn't like him. Macduff, ever ThePollyana, ThePollyanna, simply justifies each of Malcolm's claims about himself with things like "If you're that horny then fine, when you're king you'll have all the ladies, if you're greedy, don't worry, you'll have more than you can spend" before finally just giving up and deciding to kill Malcolm who then answers that he was just kidding. Macduff is understandably relieved but has had such an adventurous few minutes that his head's spinning.
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* The incredibly tense finale still has a lot of funny moments, not unlike the climax of ''Film/TheLionKing'''. Macbeth's yelling at the servant who comes to tell him the English force has arrived.
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* The incredibly tense finale still has a lot of funny moments, not unlike the climax of ''Film/TheLionKing'''.'''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'''. Macbeth's yelling at the servant who comes to tell him the English force has arrived.
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->'''Macbeth:''' [[BadBoss Go prick thy face and over-red thy fear, Thou lily-livered boy. What soldiers, patch?
Death of thy soul! Those linen cheeks of thine Are councillors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face?]]
->'''Servant:''' The English force, so please you.
Death of thy soul! Those linen cheeks of thine Are councillors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face?]]
->'''Servant:''' The English force, so please you.
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->'''Macbeth:''' [[BadBoss Go prick thy face and over-red thy fear, Thou lily-livered boy. What soldiers, patch?
patch? Death of thy soul! Those linen cheeks of thine Are councillors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face?]]
->'''Servant:'''whey-face]]?
->?'''Servant:''' The English force, so please you.
->'''Servant:'''
->?'''Servant:''' The English force, so please you.
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* In the 1999 RSC production, in Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's final scene together, after the disastrous banquet where Banquo's ghost appears, the guests have all left and Harriet Walter as Lady M says to Macbeth (Antony Sher) that "You lack the season of all natures, sleep." His next line is "Come, let's to sleep," and it's usually done as him agreeing and the two of them going off together, but one day in rehearsal, Sher had a brainwave: he stared at Walter as if she'd just grown a second head, and then burst out laughing. She stared back at him, baffled, and he flung an arm around her shoulders and said with infinite sarcasm, "''Come''! Let's to '''sleep'''!", as if it were as simple as that--they've already established that both of them aren't getting any sleep. She burst out laughing too, and when they did it in performance, it got one of the biggest laughs of the play: as Sher put it, a middle-class couple sharing a joke about what a terrible dinner party they've just hosted.
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* In the 1999 RSC production, in Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's final scene together, after the disastrous banquet where Banquo's ghost appears, the guests have all left and Harriet Walter as Lady M says to Macbeth (Antony Sher) that "You lack the season of all natures, sleep." His next line is "Come, let's to sleep," and it's usually done as him agreeing and the two of them going off together, but one day in rehearsal, Sher had a brainwave: he stared at Walter as if she'd just grown a second head, and then burst out laughing. She stared back at him, baffled, and he flung an arm around her shoulders and said with infinite sarcasm, "''Come''! Let's to '''sleep'''!", as if it were as simple as that--they've already established that both of them aren't getting any sleep. She burst out laughing too, and when they did it in performance, it got one of the biggest laughs of the play: as Sher put it, a middle-class couple sharing a joke about what a terrible dinner party they've just hosted.hosted.
* Lennox describes the storm that occurred the previous night when Macbeth was murdering the king.
->'''Lennox:''' The night has been unruly. Where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down and, as they
say, Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death, And prophesying, with accents terrible,
Of dire combustion and confused events New hatched to th' woeful time. The obscure bird
Clamored the livelong night. Some say the Earth Was feverous and did shake.
->'''Macbeth:''' [[{{Understatement}} T'was a rough night]].
* The entire scene with the drunken Porter. Even Macduff seems to find him funny.
->'''Porter:''' Faith, sir, we were carousing till the second cock, and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.
->'''Macduff:''' What three things does drink especially provoke?
->'''Porter:''' Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes. It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery. It makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him and disheartens him; makes him stand to and not stand to; in conclusion, [[YouKeepUsingThatWord equivocates]] him in a sleep and, giving him the lie, leaves him.
->'''Macduff:''' I believe drink gave thee the lie last night.
* [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Macduff Junior]]'s entire conversation with his mother is touchingly funny, but still not as funny as his line in the ensuing violent scene.
->'''Young Macduff''': Thou liest, thou shag-haired villain!
** It basically has the connotation of "You're a lying arsehole with a stupid haircut!" This is still not as funny as the Murderer's reply:
->'''Murderer''': [[LameComeback What, you egg]]?
** Then he stabs him, which makes it seem as though he couldn't be bothered coming up with a decent comeback, following this up with "Young fry of treachery", which isn't bad as insults go, basically meaning "Jumped up little shrimp" but is still too late to be effective, as though the Murderer is still smouldering at Li'l Macduff insulting his hairstyle.
* Macduff's conversation with Malcolm is darkly funny, in the way Malcolm makes himself out to be a CompleteMonster who would make an [[FromBadToWorse even worse tyrant]] than Macbeth, just to make sure that Macduff cares about Scotland and not just getting rid of Macbeth because he doesn't like him. Macduff, ever ThePollyana, simply justifies each of Malcolm's claims about himself with things like "If you're that horny then fine, when you're king you'll have all the ladies, if you're greedy, don't worry, you'll have more than you can spend" before finally just giving up and deciding to kill Malcolm who then answers that he was just kidding. Macduff is understandably relieved but has had such an adventurous few minutes that his head's spinning.
->'''Macduff:''' Such welcome and unwelcome things at once, [[MindScrew T'is hard to reconcile]].
* The incredibly tense finale still has a lot of funny moments, not unlike the climax of ''Film/TheLionKing'''. Macbeth's yelling at the servant who comes to tell him the English force has arrived.
->'''Macbeth:''' Where got thee that goose look, thou cream-faced loon?
->'''[[NervousWreck Servant]]:''' There is ten-thousand
->'''Macbeth:''' Geese, villain?
->'''Servant:''' Soldiers, sir.
->'''Macbeth:''' [[BadBoss Go prick thy face and over-red thy fear, Thou lily-livered boy. What soldiers, patch?
Death of thy soul! Those linen cheeks of thine Are councillors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face?]]
->'''Servant:''' The English force, so please you.
->'''Macbeth:''' [[GetOut Take thy face hence]].
* Then when Young Siward confronts Macbeth and demands to know his name, Macbeth simply answers "My name's Macbeth." There's something hilarious about how casually he admits to being the most hated man in Scotland. It's almost like if Adolf Hitler said to an Allied soldier "Hi, I'm Hitler" (but in German, so "Hallo, ich bin Hitler.")
* Lennox describes the storm that occurred the previous night when Macbeth was murdering the king.
->'''Lennox:''' The night has been unruly. Where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down and, as they
say, Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death, And prophesying, with accents terrible,
Of dire combustion and confused events New hatched to th' woeful time. The obscure bird
Clamored the livelong night. Some say the Earth Was feverous and did shake.
->'''Macbeth:''' [[{{Understatement}} T'was a rough night]].
* The entire scene with the drunken Porter. Even Macduff seems to find him funny.
->'''Porter:''' Faith, sir, we were carousing till the second cock, and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.
->'''Macduff:''' What three things does drink especially provoke?
->'''Porter:''' Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes. It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery. It makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him and disheartens him; makes him stand to and not stand to; in conclusion, [[YouKeepUsingThatWord equivocates]] him in a sleep and, giving him the lie, leaves him.
->'''Macduff:''' I believe drink gave thee the lie last night.
* [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Macduff Junior]]'s entire conversation with his mother is touchingly funny, but still not as funny as his line in the ensuing violent scene.
->'''Young Macduff''': Thou liest, thou shag-haired villain!
** It basically has the connotation of "You're a lying arsehole with a stupid haircut!" This is still not as funny as the Murderer's reply:
->'''Murderer''': [[LameComeback What, you egg]]?
** Then he stabs him, which makes it seem as though he couldn't be bothered coming up with a decent comeback, following this up with "Young fry of treachery", which isn't bad as insults go, basically meaning "Jumped up little shrimp" but is still too late to be effective, as though the Murderer is still smouldering at Li'l Macduff insulting his hairstyle.
* Macduff's conversation with Malcolm is darkly funny, in the way Malcolm makes himself out to be a CompleteMonster who would make an [[FromBadToWorse even worse tyrant]] than Macbeth, just to make sure that Macduff cares about Scotland and not just getting rid of Macbeth because he doesn't like him. Macduff, ever ThePollyana, simply justifies each of Malcolm's claims about himself with things like "If you're that horny then fine, when you're king you'll have all the ladies, if you're greedy, don't worry, you'll have more than you can spend" before finally just giving up and deciding to kill Malcolm who then answers that he was just kidding. Macduff is understandably relieved but has had such an adventurous few minutes that his head's spinning.
->'''Macduff:''' Such welcome and unwelcome things at once, [[MindScrew T'is hard to reconcile]].
* The incredibly tense finale still has a lot of funny moments, not unlike the climax of ''Film/TheLionKing'''. Macbeth's yelling at the servant who comes to tell him the English force has arrived.
->'''Macbeth:''' Where got thee that goose look, thou cream-faced loon?
->'''[[NervousWreck Servant]]:''' There is ten-thousand
->'''Macbeth:''' Geese, villain?
->'''Servant:''' Soldiers, sir.
->'''Macbeth:''' [[BadBoss Go prick thy face and over-red thy fear, Thou lily-livered boy. What soldiers, patch?
Death of thy soul! Those linen cheeks of thine Are councillors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face?]]
->'''Servant:''' The English force, so please you.
->'''Macbeth:''' [[GetOut Take thy face hence]].
* Then when Young Siward confronts Macbeth and demands to know his name, Macbeth simply answers "My name's Macbeth." There's something hilarious about how casually he admits to being the most hated man in Scotland. It's almost like if Adolf Hitler said to an Allied soldier "Hi, I'm Hitler" (but in German, so "Hallo, ich bin Hitler.")
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* In the 1999 RSC production, in Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's final scene together, after the disastrous banquet where Banquo's ghost appears, the guests have all left and Harriet Walter as Lady M says to Macbeth (Antony Sher) that "You lack the season of all natures, sleep." His next line is "Come, let's to sleep," and it's usually done as him agreeing and the two of them going off together, but one day in rehearsal, Sher had a brainwave: he stared at Walter as if she'd just grown a second head, and then burst out laughing. She stared back at him, baffled, and he flung an arm around her shoulders and said with infinite sarcasm, "''Come''! Let's to '''sleep'''!", as if it were as simple as that--they've already established that both of them aren't getting any sleep. She burst out laughing too, and when they did it in performance, it got one of the biggest laughs of the play: as Sher put it, a middle-class couple sharing a joke about what a terrible dinner party they've just hosted.
