Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - wikipedia Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow For the short story by Kurt Vonnegut, see Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow ( short story ). `` Sound and fury '' redirects here. For other uses, see Sound and Fury ( disambiguation ). She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. -- To - morrow, and to - morrow, and to - morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time ; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle ! Life 's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing. -- Macbeth ( Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17 - 28 ) `` Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow '' is the beginning of the second sentence of one of the more famous soliloquies in Shakespeare 's tragedy Macbeth. It takes place in the beginning of the 5th scene of Act 5, during the time when the Scottish troops, led by Malcolm and Macduff, are approaching Macbeth 's castle to besiege it. Macbeth, the play 's protagonist, is confident that he can withstand any siege from Malcolm 's forces. He hears the cry of a woman and reflects that there was a time when his hair would have stood on end if he had heard such a cry, but he is now so full of horrors and slaughterous thoughts that it can no longer startle him. Seyton then tells Macbeth of Lady Macbeth 's death, and Macbeth delivers this soliloquy as his response to the news. Shortly afterwards he is told of the apparent movement of Birnam Wood towards Dunsinane Castle ( as the witches previously prophesied to him ), which is actually Malcolm 's forces having disguised themselves with tree branches so as to hide their numbers as they approach the castle. This sets the scene for the final events of the play and Macbeth 's death at the hands of Macduff. Contents 1 Titular reuses 2 Other reuses 3 References 4 External links Titular reuses This section appears to contain trivial, minor, or unrelated references to popular culture. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject 's impact on popular culture, using references to reliable sources, rather than simply listing appearances. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( January 2018 ) Dusty death, a 1931 novel of drug smuggling by Clifton Robbins. `` Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow '' is a 1953 short story by Kurt Vonnegut. All Our Yesterdays is used as the title of several works, encompassing literature, music and television, including a 1969 history of 1940s science fiction fandom by Harry Warner, Jr, ; an episode of Star Trek : The Original Series ( Season 3, Episode 24, 1969 ) ; and a 1994 novel by Robert B. Parker. The Way to Dusty Death is a 1973 novel by Alistair MacLean. `` Out, Out -- '' is a 1916 poem by Robert Frost. `` Sound and fury '' is used in the title of several works, including The Sound and the Fury, a novel by William Faulkner ; and a 2000 documentary about deaf children. It is also the name of Edward Vesala 's ensemble. Hamilton uses the third and fourth lines of the section in the song `` Take a Break ''. Struts & Frets is a 2009 novel by Jon Skovron Walking Shadow, published in 1994, is the 21st Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker. `` Signifying Nothing '' is the title of a short story in the 1999 collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, by David Foster Wallace. All My Yesterdays : An Autobiography by Edward G. Robinson. ESPN SportsCenter anchor Stuart Scott frequently used the last two lines as a catch phrase to describe sports highlights. Other reuses Minister Zhang from Mr. Robot quotes the speech in an episode titled `` Logic Bomb ''. In the movie Birdman by Alejandro González Iñárritu, the entire monologue is recited by a jobless actor in the street. In the video game Saints Row IV, the main antagonist Zinyak recites the soliloquy in its entirety, save for the first sentence. The mis - quote `` creeps on this petty pace '' is used by the Sopranos character Johnny Sack in the season four finale when complaining to Tony Soprano over Johnny 's working relationship with his boss. The penultimate episode of the original Star Trek series is titled `` All of Our Yesterdays '', taken from this soliloquy. In Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen ( episode 4 ) the Doctor, having destroyed a cyberman using a cybermat, declaims before the body : ``... dusty death. Out, out... '' - he is heard no more as Sarah Jane Smith hurries him from the room. References Jump up ^ Andersen, Richard ( 2009 ). Macbeth. Marshall Cavendish. p. 104. Jump up ^ Platou, Arnold S. ( March 31, 2003 ). `` Harry Warner 's parallel universe ''. The Herald - Mail. Retrieved 22 October 2016. External links Wikisource has original text related to this article : The Tragedy of Macbeth Soliloquy Translation ( broken link as of 03 Nov 2015, available at the Wayback Machine Explanation of the scene William Shakespeare 's Macbeth Characters Macbeth Lady Macbeth Banquo Macduff King Duncan Malcolm Donalbain Three Witches Fleance Lady Macduff Macduff 's son Third Murderer Young Siward Inspirations Macbeth, King of Scotland Gruoch of Scotland Duncan I of Scotland Malcolm III of Scotland Donald III of Scotland Siward, Earl of Northumbria King James VI and I Sources Daemonologie ( 1597 ) The Witch ( play ) Holinshed 's Chronicles Darraðarljóð Film 1908 1909 ( French ) 1909 ( Italian ) 1911 1913 1915 1916 1922 1948 1971 2006 2015 Cancelled ( Olivier ) Television 1954 1960 US TV 1960 Australian TV 1961 1979 1982 2005 TV / film adaptations The Real Thing at Last ( 1916 ) Marmayogi ( 1951 ) Joe MacBeth ( 1955 ) Throne of Blood ( 1957 ) Macbeth ( Verdi opera ) ( 1987 ) Men of Respect ( 1990 ) Scotland, PA ( 2001 ) Makibefo ( 2001 ) Maqbool ( 2003 ) Shakespeare Must Die ( 2012 ) Veeram ( 2016 ) Plays Voodoo Macbeth ( 1936 ) MacBird ! ( 1967 ) uMabatha ( 1970 ) Macbett ( 1972 ) Cahoot 's Macbeth ( 1979 ) MacHomer ( 1995 ) Sleep No More ( 2003 ) Sleep No More ( 2009 ) Dunsinane ( 2010 ) Sleep No More ( 2011 ) Just Macbeth ! Operas Macbeth ( 1847, Verdi ) discography Macbeth ( 1910, Bloch ) Literary adaptations Wyrd Sisters ( 1988 ) The Last King of Scotland ( 1998 ) The Tragedy of Macbeth Part II ( 2008 ) Albums Music from Macbeth ( 1972 ) Macbeth ( 1990 ) Thane to the Throne ( 2000 ) Shakespeare 's Macbeth -- A Tragedy in Steel ( 2003 ) Lady Macbeth ( 2005 ) Art Pity ( 1795 ) The Night of Enitharmon 's Joy ( 1795 ) Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth ( 1889 ) Lady Macbeth ( 1905 sculpture ) Scenes and speeches `` On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth '' ( 1823 ) Sleepwalking Scene ( 5.1 ) `` Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow '' Words and phrases `` What 's done is done '' `` Crack of doom '' `` Strange but true '' The Scottish Play Thane of Cawdor Story within a story We Work Again Light Thickens The Deadly Affair `` The Movies '' `` Sleeping with the Enemy '' `` The Shower Principle '' Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine The Scottish Play Burke & Hare Episodes `` A Witch 's Tangled Hare '' ( 1959, Looney Tunes ) `` The Bellero Shield '' ( 1964, The Outer Limits ) `` Sense and Senility '' ( 1987, Blackadder the Third ) `` The Coup '' ( 2006, The Office ) `` Dial `` N '' for Nerder '' ( 2008, The Simpsons ) `` Four Great Women and a Manicure '' ( 2009, The Simpsons ) `` The Understudy '' ( 2014, Inside No. 9 ) Other Macbeth ( Strauss ) The Scottish Play Piano Trios, Op. 70 ( Beethoven ) The Ruins of Cawdor House of Cards ( UK, 1990 ) House of Cards ( US, 2013 -- present ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tomorrow_and_tomorrow_and_tomorrow&oldid=856929543 '' Categories : Monologues Shakespearean phrases Macbeth Hidden categories : Articles with trivia sections from January 2018 All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from January 2018 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Polski Edit links This page was last edited on 28 August 2018, at 13 : 02 ( UTC ). 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Question: who said it is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury
Answer: Macbeth