“Without this edition, eighteen of Shakespeare's plays including some of his most famous like Macbeth, The Tempest and other plays would have been lost for all time. It's the only surviving source for eighteen of Shakespeare's plays. With regard to this particular copy of the first folio, it's remarkable because it's preserved in it's original seventeenth century binding. There's no other copy in the world in private hands preserved in a seventeenth century binding complete with all it's text leaves.”
Peter Selley
“Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief n”
William Shakespeare
“To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be”
Max Beerbohm
“Why do an infinite number of monkeys always want to type "Hamlet"? What's wrong with "Macbeth"? Why not something by Dickens or Poe?”
Tom Knapp
“If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.”
Dr. Joyce Brothers
“Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.”
Brand Blanshard
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeit's not, Lust like a glutton dies, Love is all truth, Lust full”
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