Macbeth is also endowed with a hypersensitive ... (this production has a highly active off-stage soundtrack). The dagger soliloquy comes after he dozes off on a bench; he starts to hallucinate ...

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 ...

From Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy to Macbeth’s “Is this a dagger which I see before me”, this programme will follow the contest designed to introduce Shakespeare’s words ...