Nine hundred fifty-five years ago today, the battle of Lumphanan in Scotland marked the end of the reign of Macbeth as king of Scotland. He would be little remembered today, were it not for the fact that Shakespeare wrote a play about him over five hundred years later. Macbeth's final soliloquy is considered to be one of the most memorable and emotionally resonant pieces of blank verse in the English language. What does it signify? Nothing -- just like the man says.
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