Brutus and Other Heroines by Harriet Walter

Author:Harriet Walter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nick Hern Books

The difference being that Macbeth confronts his nightmares while awake.

Despite what they guess at, the doctor and the gentlewoman express their compassion: ‘I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole body.’ The defencelessness of a sleepwalker is pitiable even when she is Lady Macbeth. That is the genius of the scene.

Lady Macbeth’s ‘Oh, oh, oh!’ is the low point in her nightly repeated cycle. She forces herself out of it with her wonted practicality, commanding her husband (or herself) to

Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale.—I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried; he cannot come out on’s grave.

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