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作者介紹
威廉．莎士比亞　William Shakespeare（1564-1616）

英國最傑出的戲劇家，1564年生於史特拉特福，在宮內大臣劇團擔任劇作家時期，留下了數十部膾炙人口的經典作品。莎士比亞的戲劇風格多變，類型包括了喜劇、悲劇、傳奇劇、歷史劇，故事背景從古希臘羅馬，到古典時期的歐洲城市，四百多年來深受各時期的作家、藝術家、音樂家推崇，成為無數曠世名作的靈感來源。

莎士比亞一生流傳下來的作品包含38部戲劇、154首十四行詩、以及少數雜詩，作品被翻譯成全球數十種語言，不停地重複上演。今日，莎士比亞故居上空飄揚著一百零五個國家的國旗，以紀念這位偉大作家對人類文學史的重大貢獻。
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Act Two, Scene Two
Macbeth ’s castle at Inverness,
later that night

Macbeth
If we decide to do this dreadful deed
It must be swiftly done to have success.
And yet the things we do sometimes come back
To punish us. He’s here in double trust.
First, I am his kinsman and his subject.
Secondly, I am his host; my part
Should be to keep him safe from villainy,
Not bear the knife myself.
Lady Macbeth enters.
How now? What news?

Lady Macbeth
He has almost supp’d. Why have you left the chamber?

Macbeth
Hath he asked for me?

Lady Macbeth
Know you not he has?

Macbeth
We will proceed no further in this business.

Lady Macbeth
Has boldness turned to cowardice in you?

Macbeth
Prithee, peace, I dare do all that may become a man.

Lady Macbeth
When you durst do it, then you were a man.

Macbeth
If we should fail?

Lady Macbeth
But we’ll not fail. When Duncan is asleep,
I will his guards with so much wine make drunk
That they will sleep as soundly as the dead.
What cannot you and I perform upon
The unguarded Duncan?

Macbeth
O, spirited
And fearless wife! Will it not be believed
When we have marked with blood those sleepy two
Of his own chamber, and used their very daggers,
That they have done it?

Lady Macbeth
It will, my deare...