AISLIN MCGUCKIN:The sharing of the lines in the 'Bloody Daggers' or post-murder scene I think allows us to hear how… urgent the need to communicate is between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth at that point.

Michael Boyd:Macbeth starts off as the brightest, and best, and the nearest, and the dearest to Duncan. And then he falls. Michael Boyd:This first soliloquy, it reminds me of "to be or not to be ...