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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled The Tragedie of Macbeth about English, William, England's with the genre: Comics & Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels.
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conversations.value: William the author was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". - Wikipedia
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conversations.value: The Tragedie of Macbeth
  The differences in spelling between 'weyward' and 'weyard' within the play might be attributable to different practices between the two compositors; designated Compositor A and Compositor B by Charlton Hinman in The Printing and Proof Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare (1963). The former spelling appears to be A's style while B uses the latter spelling which might indicate the manner in which the word was pronounced. Compositor B is unlikely to have improvised a meaningless neologism in place of an established word such as wayward, particularly since he reproduced wayward accurately in Act 3, Scene 5 where Hecate refers to Macbeth in the lines 'all you have done/Hath bene but for a wayward Sonne' (p. 73). Compositor A is generally regarded as the more accurate of the two across the whole First Folio. However, most cruces in Macbeth occur in the earlier scenes, which he set, and most mislineation has also been detected here. In the absence of any hard evidence to enable a distinction to be made, emendation has been carried out according to subjective principles governed by matters of taste. The eighteenth-century editor Lewis Theobald resolved the difference between 'weyward' and 'weyard' as 'weird' and subsequent editors have been led by his practice. The spelling of 'weird' in its adjectival usage is not stable throughout the First Folio. Weyward, A's spelling, with the sense of moody or perverse, is an appropriate word for the three sisters. To substitute weird, from the Anglo-Saxon 'wyrd', referring to fate or destiny, suggests a meaning that the text may not support. It has, however, been a meaning enthusiastically adopted by critics.
  Shakespeare's source in Holinshed left some ambiguity as to whether the weird sisters were goddesses of destiny or necromancers endued with the powers of prophecy. The literature of the period, as exemplified in Peter Heylin's 162$ account of the Macbeth story, shows how 'fairies', 'witches' and 'weirds' were interchangeable terms. Subsequent definitions that derive from the word 'weird' and its link with fate have the effect of infringing Macbeth's power of action. If the weird sisters not only foresee but decree the future then Macbeth is a victim of malignant fate rather than of any operation of his own will. For Bradley, for example, for whom operation of character is the essential element of Shakespearean tragedy, the witches cannot be any more than clairvoyant. The desire to resolve the ambiguity that the First Folio permits by its refusal to delimit the range of meanings that Holinshed offered, imposes a meaning on these central characters that may not have been what Shakespeare intended.
  A number of editors have rejected the 'bleeding captain' scene in Act 1, Scene 2, or, as is the case with the editors of the Clarendon edition in 1881, suggested that it is the work of Middleton. As W.G. Clark and William Aldis Wright observe in that edition:
  We believe that the second scene of the first act was not written by Shakespeare. Making all allowance for corruption of text, the slovenly metre is not like Shakespeare's work, even when he is most careless. The bombastic phraseology of the sergeant is not like Shakespeare's language even when he is most bombastic.... We may add that Shakespeare's good sense would hardly have tolerated the absurdity of sending a severely wounded soldier to carry the news of victory.
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conversations.value: Porter. Here's a knocking indeede: if a man were Porter of Hell Gate, hee should have old turning the Key. Knock. Knock, Knock, Knock. Who's there i'th'name of Belzebub? Here's a Farmer, that hang'd himselfe on th'expectation of Plentie: Come in time, have Napkins enow about you, here you'le sweat for't. Knock. Knock, knock. Who's there in th'other Devils Name? Faith here's an Equivocator, that could sweare in both the Seales against eyther Scale, who committed Treason enough for Gods sake, yet could not equivocate to Heaven: oh come in, Equivocator. Knock. Knock, Knock, Knock. Who's there? 'Faith here's an English Taylor come hither, for stealing out of a French Hose: Come in Taylor, here you may rost your Goose. Knock. Knock, Knock. Never at quiet: What are you? but this Place is too cold for Hell. Ile Devill-Porter it no further: I had thought to have let in some of all Professions, that goe the Primrose way to th'everlasting Bonfire. Knock. Anon, anon, I pray you remember the Porter.
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conversations.value: The Title, is affear'd: there are two possible meanings depending on whether F's spelling is accepted. Hanmer altered the spelling, and thus the word, to 'afeered', a legal term meaning confirmed: the meaning of the line thus becomes 'Macbeth's title is confirmed by Malcolm's unwillingness to resist'. If F's spelling is retained the line can also be read as saying that Malcolm is afraid to press his title against Macbeth.
  By his owne Interdiction stands accust: F2 changed 'acust' to 'accurst'; another possible reading, closer to F's spelling, is 'acus'd', especially given the legal sense of interdiction.
  This time goes manly: either, at this time we are ready to act, or, the rythm of these remarks is manly and warlike.
  Cyme: some form of purgative drug is meant here, either senna or thyme, sium (wild parsley), cumin or Ocyme (basil).
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conversations.value: Hanmer altered the spelling, and thus the word, to 'afeered', a legal term meaning confirmed: the meaning of the line thus becomes 'Macbeth's title is confirmed by Malcolm's unwillingness to resist'. If F's spelling is retained the line can also be read as saying that Malcolm is afraid to press his title against Macbeth.
  By his owne Interdiction stands accust: F2 changed 'acust' to 'accurst'; another possible reading, closer to F's spelling, is 'acus'd', especially given the legal sense of interdiction.
  This time goes manly: either, at this time we are ready to act, or, the rythm of these remarks is manly and warlike.
  Cyme: some form of purgative drug is meant here, either senna or thyme, sium (wild parsley), cumin or Ocyme (basil).