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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

A drama monologue from Macbeth by William Shakespeare. About 1 min.

With his enemies at the gates, Macbeth is told his wife is dead.

Macbeth
30s to 50s. A tyrant who has lost everything but the crown

  1. Seyton has just told him, “The Queen, my lord, is dead.”

  2. She should have died hereafter.

  3. There would have been a time for such a word.

  4. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

  5. Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

  6. To the last syllable of recorded time;

  7. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

  8. The way to dusty death.

  9. Out, out, brief candle!

  10. Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player,

  11. That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

  12. And then is heard no more: it is a tale

  13. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

  14. Signifying nothing.

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Public domain, William Shakespeare, 1606. Text from Project Gutenberg #1533.

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