Macbeth, about to embark on the murderous chain of events which will bring about his own tragic downfall, begins to doubt his own senses and imagines that a bloody dagger appears in front of him.

Max Bennett performs this famous speech in our 2023 production of Macbeth.

★★★★ 'Powerful... striking’ (The Guardian)
★★★★ 'Sophisticated and magnetic' (Primera Fila)

Directed by Abigail Graham, Macbeth plays in the Globe Theatre until 28 October as part of our Summer 2023 season: bit.ly/GlobeMacbeth2023

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00:00 Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight?
00:26 or art thou but A dagger of the mind,
a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;
And such an instrument I was to use.
00:52 Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,
Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
[a bell rings]
2:13 I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.

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