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DRAMATURGICAL RESOURCES

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Act Two, Scene Four
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Act Two, Scene Four 

Pg 89 – Dangle - "Atrabilious"

"full of black bile" -- i.e., bad-tempered, though more in a dark Hamlet way than in a violent Tybalt fashion.

 

Pg 90 – Alan - "Turn! Hell hound! Turn!"

Like most of Alan's lines, this is a quotation from Shakespeare--this time, Macduff's challenge to Macbeth in Act Five (though it's worth noting that, based on the punctuation, his delivery is a bit more extreme [read "amateur"] than the printed "Turn, Hell-hound, Turn!")​

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