Macready set it in a courtyard with a gateway in the centre at the rear surmounted by a heavy tower. In the event, Macklin staged the scene in ‘the inward quadrangle of an old Gothic castle’ ( Morning Chronicle, 29 October 1773). To remedy this the scene must lie in a Hall, or antichamber in which there must be a Table in the appartment and when the Servant goes off he must leave the candles on the Table, on which I think Macbeth must put them out’ (manuscript notes Appleton, Macklin, pp. Setting Macklin comments that, in previous productions of this scene, ‘the Servant comes on with two candles, he goes off & leaves his master in the dark that is a breach of manners even to absurdity. See 3.4.123, where stones move and trees speak. Edmond Malone, vols., 1790, IVMalone cites ‘yet will the very stones / That lie within the streetes cry out for vengeance’ ( A Warning for Faire Women, 1599 Warning, signature, signatures (printers’ indications of the ordering of pages in early modern books, often more accurate than page numbers)sig. Dent, Shakespeare’s Proverbial Language: An Index, 1981 reference is to proverbs by letter and numberDent s895.1 (‘The stones would speak’) cites Gascoigne (1573): ‘When men crye mumme and keepe such silence long, / Then stones must speake, els dead men shall have wrong’, and Macbeth in The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, ed. Speaking stones are uncommon Zachary Grey, Critical, Historical, and Explanatory Notes on Shakespeare, vols., 1754Grey ( ii, 144) thought Luke 19.40 an analogue, but the context (telling the good word) is far from this one. Compare ‘the land bids me tread no more upon’t, / It is ashamed to bear me’ ( Antony and Cleopatra Ant.
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