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Word: couldst (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short, forceful phrase to deliver. After murdering Duncan, he is told by Lady Macbeth to return to smear the grooms with blood; he strikes to the heart when he cries "I'll go no more!" and, shortly after, "Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!" And on witnessing the Weird Sisters' parade of apparitions, he makes the most of that horrible, anguished shout, "But no more sights...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Macbeth | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

...Shakes Versus Shav, a puppet play in which he restates his half-serious, half-mocking claim to being the Shakespeare of his own day. After Shakes and Shav have knocked each other down, argued about Sir Walter Scott and debated the relative merits of their own plays ("Couldst thou write King Lear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Last Plays by G.B.S. | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...Couldst thou have written Heartbreak House?"), Shav concludes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Last Plays by G.B.S. | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

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