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'How now' basically means 'Hello' or 'well met'.

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Q: Can someone translate How now you secret black and midnight hags from Macbeth Act 4 Scene 1 what does how now mean?
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Lady macbeth is when the doctor and gentlewoman discover her secret?

She is sleepwalking, and unfortunately sleeptalking as well.


What is Lady Macbeth's main concern about her husband?

Her main concern is to keep the death of the king a secret, and she does not want Macbeth to spoil that up. She wants him to stay the king, so that she stays the queen.


Be innocent of the knowledge dearest till thou applaud the deed?

Macbeth is saying this as he thinks aloud about his plan to kill banquo and his son fleance. Lady Macbeth over hears and asks him about it. He asks her to be innocent of the knowledge but to not worry because once the deed is done she will be better off.


What does the quote from Macbeth a deed without a name mean?

The quote is said by one of the weird sisters in the play Macbeth as they brew up evil spirits and invite Hecate to attend, in anticipation of Macbeth's desperate arrival to hear his fate from them. Macbeth finds the weird sisters in a cave and he immediately sees that they are doing something unearthly and greets them with "How now you black and secret midnight hags?". Means > I greet you, what are you doing evil women? One of the weird sisters replies to him, " ...a deed without a name". This means that they are meddling with unearthly spirits and evil of the most unearthly kind. A deed (act) which is SO evil that it has no words or earthly definition to describe it. It is beyond evil, beyond earthly good and evil. It is evil and madness beyond any human comprehension and even beyond words or description. A deed without a name.


Is there a film to understand the play Macbeth better?

Roman Polanski made Macbeth into an excellent film:- but this is one of Shakespeare's easiest plays.Macbeth kills Duncan in order to become king. Then he decides he has to kill Banquo to keep his secret. Then he realises Macduff is also a risk ...There was an old lady who swallowed a fly ...

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