The Macbeth Study Quiz
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Malcolm ends the play with the controversial speech:
We shall not spend a large expense of time
Before we reckon with your several loves,
And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,
Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland
In such an honour named. What's more to do,
Which would be planted newly with the time,
As calling home our exiled friends abroad
That fled the snares of watchful tyranny;
Producing forth the cruel ministers
Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands
Took off her life; this, and what needful else
That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace,
We will perform in measure, time and place:
So, thanks to all at once and to each one,
Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone. (5.5.72)
Some scholars believe that someone other than Shakespeare added these final lines, for the reference to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as "this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen" (81), seems to contradict the character development of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth throughout the play. However, it must not be forgotten that Malcolm is expressing his own feelings about his nemeses.
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